Quaternion moment and its invariants for color object classification》.pdf

Information Sciences 273 (2014) 132–143 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Information Sciences journal homepage: www.else /locate/ins Quaternion moment and its invariants for color object classification Liqiang Guo a,b,⇑, Ming Dai b, Ming Zhu b a School of Computer Science and Technology, Huaiyin Normal University, PR China b Key laboratory of Airborne Optical Imaging and Measurement, Changchun Institute of Optics, Fine Mechanics and Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Moment invariants are important shape descriptors in computer vision. In this study, we Received 2 September 2012 propose new sets of quaternion moment descriptors for color image. They are constructed Received in revised form 7 March 2014 in the quaternion framework and are an extension of complex moment invariants for Accepted 11 March 2014 grayscale images. This is a useful tool in color image processing and color object recogni- Available online 18 March 2014 tion tasks that require the similarity invariance. The advantage of the proposed quaternion moment invariants is that they can not only process color image in a holistic manner but Keywords: also grayscale one. In addition, the computational complexity of the proposed method is Quaternion much lower than the quaternion Zernike moments defined in the polar coordinat