Shape Description by Bending Invariant Moments

  • Paul L. Rosin
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6854)

Abstract

A simple scheme is presented for modifying geometric moments to use geodesic distances. This provides a set of global shape descriptors that are invariant to bending as well as rotation, translation and scale.

Keywords

moments transformation invariance bending articulation 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Paul L. Rosin
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  1. 1.School of Computer Science & InformaticsCardiff UniversityCardiffUK

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