Fast polar harmonic transforms

Zhuo Yang*, Sei Ichiro Kamata

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Polar Harmonic Transform (PHT) is termed to represent a set of transforms those kernels are basic waves and harmonic in nature. PHTs consist of Polar Complex Exponential Transform (PCET), Polar Cosine Transform (PCT) and Polar Sine Transform (PST). They are proposed to represent invariant image patterns for two dimensional image retrieval and pattern recognition tasks. They are demonstrated to show superiorities comparing with other methods on describing rotation invariant patterns for images. Kernel computation of PHTs is also simple and has no numerical stability issue. However in order to increase the computation speed, fast computation method is needed especially for real world applications like limited computing environments, large image databases and realtime systems. This paper presents Fast Polar Harmonic Transforms (FPHTs) including Fast Polar Complex Exponential Transform (FPCET), Fast Polar Cosine Transform (FPCT) and Fast Polar Sine Transform (FPST) that are deduced based on mathematical properties of trigonometric functions. The proposed FPHTs are averagely over 6 ∼ 8 times faster than PHTs that significantly boost computation process. The experimental results on both synthetic and real data are given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed fast transforms.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2010
Pages673-677
Number of pages5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Event11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2010 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: 2010 Dec 72010 Dec 10

Publication series

Name11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2010

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, ICARCV 2010
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period10/12/710/12/10

Keywords

  • Fast polar complex exponential transform
  • Fast polar cosine transform
  • Fast polar harmonic transform
  • Fast polar sine transform
  • Image retrieval
  • Pattern recognition

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Control and Systems Engineering

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