In
mathematics, pseudo-Zernike polynomials are well known and widely used in the analysis of
optical
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systems. They are also widely used in
image analysis
Image analysis or imagery analysis is the extraction of meaningful information from images; mainly from digital images by means of digital image processing techniques. Image analysis tasks can be as simple as reading bar coded tags or as sophi ...
as
shape descriptors.
Definition
They are an
orthogonal
In mathematics, orthogonality is the generalization of the geometric notion of '' perpendicularity''.
By extension, orthogonality is also used to refer to the separation of specific features of a system. The term also has specialized meanings in ...
set of
complex
Complex commonly refers to:
* Complexity, the behaviour of a system whose components interact in multiple ways so possible interactions are difficult to describe
** Complex system, a system composed of many components which may interact with each ...
-valued
polynomials
In mathematics, a polynomial is an expression consisting of indeterminates (also called variables) and coefficients, that involves only the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and positive-integer powers of variables. An example ...
defined as
:
where
and orthogonality on the
unit disk
In mathematics, the open unit disk (or disc) around ''P'' (where ''P'' is a given point in the plane), is the set of points whose distance from ''P'' is less than 1:
:D_1(P) = \.\,
The closed unit disk around ''P'' is the set of points whose ...
is given as
:
where the star means complex conjugation, and
,
,
are the standard transformations between polar and Cartesian coordinates.
The radial polynomials
are defined as
with integer coefficients
:
Examples
Examples are:
Moments
The pseudo-Zernike Moments (PZM) of order
and repetition
are defined as
:
where
, and
takes on positive and negative
integer
An integer is the number zero (), a positive natural number (, , , etc.) or a negative integer with a minus sign ( −1, −2, −3, etc.). The negative numbers are the additive inverses of the corresponding positive numbers. In the language ...
values subject to
.
The image function can be reconstructed by expansion of the pseudo-Zernike coefficients on the unit disk as
:
Pseudo-Zernike moments are derived from conventional
Zernike moments and shown
to be more robust and less sensitive to image
noise
Noise is unwanted sound considered unpleasant, loud or disruptive to hearing. From a physics standpoint, there is no distinction between noise and desired sound, as both are vibrations through a medium, such as air or water. The difference aris ...
than the Zernike moments.
See also
*
Zernike polynomials
In mathematics, the Zernike polynomials are a sequence of polynomials that are orthogonal on the unit disk. Named after optical physicist Frits Zernike, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Physics and the inventor of phase-contrast microscopy, t ...
*
Image moment
In image processing, computer vision and related fields, an image moment is a certain particular weighted average ( moment) of the image pixels' intensities, or a function of such moments, usually chosen to have some attractive property or interp ...
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