Multidistortion-invariant image recognition with radial harmonic Fourier moments

J Opt Soc Am A Opt Image Sci Vis. 2003 Apr;20(4):631-7. doi: 10.1364/josaa.20.000631.

Abstract

We propose radial harmonic Fourier moments, which are shifting, scaling, rotation, and intensity invariant. Compared with Chebyshev-Fourier moments, the new moments have superior performance near the origin and better ability to describe small images in terms of image-reconstruction errors and noise sensitivity. A multidistortion-invariant pattern-recognition experiment was performed with radial harmonic Fourier moments.