Zernike moments (ZMs) are a set of orthogonal moments which have been successfully used in the fields of image processing and pattern recognition. A combination of edge blurring with ZMs computation was introduced. In...Zernike moments (ZMs) are a set of orthogonal moments which have been successfully used in the fields of image processing and pattern recognition. A combination of edge blurring with ZMs computation was introduced. In this study, several kinds of artificial binary stripe images were used to investigate the effects of edge blurring on the absolute mean error of reconstructed image from high-order ZMs. After the blurring process, the reconstruction errors were increased dramatically at edge pixels, but decreased on non-edge pixels. The experimental results demonstrated that 2-pixel blurring approach provided better performance for reducing reconstruction error. Finally, a template matching between two real images was simulated to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.展开更多
文摘Zernike moments (ZMs) are a set of orthogonal moments which have been successfully used in the fields of image processing and pattern recognition. A combination of edge blurring with ZMs computation was introduced. In this study, several kinds of artificial binary stripe images were used to investigate the effects of edge blurring on the absolute mean error of reconstructed image from high-order ZMs. After the blurring process, the reconstruction errors were increased dramatically at edge pixels, but decreased on non-edge pixels. The experimental results demonstrated that 2-pixel blurring approach provided better performance for reducing reconstruction error. Finally, a template matching between two real images was simulated to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.