Rotation Moment Invariant Feature Extraction Techniques for Image Matching

摘要

In recently years, extracting images invariance features are gaining more attention in image matching field. Various types of methods have been used to match image successfully in a number of applications. But in mostly literatures, the rotation moment invariant properties of these invariants have not been studied widely. In this paper, we present a novel method based on Polar Harmonic Transforms (PHTs) which is consisted of a set of orthogonal projection bases to extract rotation moment invariant features. The experimental results show that the kernel computation of PHTs is simple and image features is extracted accurately in image matching. Hence polar harmonic transforms have provided a powerful tool for image matching.