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Fast Image Feature Extraction & Segmentation

This project is based on the utility of Wavelet transform, fractional discrimination and Hausdorff Distance Transform. These features will be used to address some of the questions of this project.

 This project is being supervised by Dr. Jane You and Dr. Hong Shen, School of Computing & Information Technology, Griffith University, Australia.

The objective of this project :


The very name wavelet comes from the requirement that they should integrate to zero, "waving" above and below the x-axis. Wavelets are local in both frequency (via dilations) and in time (via translations). There are various types of wavelets, one can choose from smooth wavelets, compactly supported wavelets, wavelets with simple mathematical expressions, wavelets with simple associated filters.

There are some important differences between the Fourier analysis and wavelets. Fourier basis functions are localized in frequency but not in time, but wavelet is localized in both the domains.


Figure 1. Image lena when passed through three wavelet transform

The features of wavelet transform has been applied in this project to extract some feature from the image. The image has been passed through three Wavelet transform. From the figure 1 we can see that one quater of the image is smaller version of the image - a lower resolution version. The other looks like edges of the image. The above hierarchial representation signifies that the image has been coressed to a significant level and the resolution has dropped.

To enhance our feature extraction procedure we have used the Interesting Point Algorithm to determine the edges of the image. The algorithm was first applied to the decomposed original image, and later it was applied to each of the three associated images of subband level three. The sum of these images were used to compare the results with that of the edge detected by the original image. The same has been illustrated in figure 2.

Figure 2. Comparison of images on applying normal interesting point algorithm.

In the project we are presently working on the code for matching and other associated feature extraction algorithms.


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Dated: Jan 20, 1999

Author: Rama Bellur