Histogram of oriented phase (HOP): a new descriptor based on phase congruency

Hussin K. Ragb; Vijayan K. Asari

doi:10.1117/12.2225159

19 May 2016 Histogram of oriented phase (HOP): a new descriptor based on phase congruency

Hussin K. Ragb, Vijayan K. Asari

Proceedings Volume 9869, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2016; 98690V (2016) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2225159
Event: SPIE Commercial + Scientific Sensing and Imaging, 2016, Baltimore, MD, United States

Abstract

In this paper we present a low level image descriptor called Histogram of Oriented Phase based on phase congruency concept and the Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Since the phase of the signal conveys more information regarding signal structure than the magnitude, the proposed descriptor can precisely identify and localize image features over the gradient based techniques, especially in the regions affected by illumination changes. The proposed features can be formed by extracting the phase congruency information for each pixel in the image with respect to its neighborhood. Histograms of the phase congruency values of the local regions in the image are computed with respect to its orientation. These histograms are concatenated to construct the Histogram of Oriented Phase (HOP) features. The dimensionality of HOP features is reduced using PCA algorithm to form HOP-PCA descriptor. The dimensionless quantity of the phase congruency leads the HOP-PCA descriptor to be more robust to the image scale variations as well as contrast and illumination changes. Several experiments were performed using INRIA and DaimlerChrysler datasets to evaluate the performance of the HOP-PCA descriptor. The experimental results show that the proposed descriptor has better detection performance and less error rates than a set of the state of the art feature extraction methodologies.

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Hussin K. Ragb and Vijayan K. Asari "Histogram of oriented phase (HOP): a new descriptor based on phase congruency", Proc. SPIE 9869, Mobile Multimedia/Image Processing, Security, and Applications 2016, 98690V (19 May 2016); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2225159

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