The structure of images has been studied for decades and the use of local structure tensor fields appeared during the eighties [3, 14, 6, 9, 11]. Since then numerous varieties of tensors and estimation schemes have been developed. Tensors have for instance been used to represent orientation [7], velocity, curvature [2] and diffusion [19] with applications to adaptive filtering [8], motion analysis [10] and segmentation [17]. Even though sampling in non-Cartesian coordinate system are common, analysis and processing of local structure tensor fields in such systems is less developed. Previous work on local structure in non-Cartesian coordinate systems include [21, 16, 1, 18].
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Svensson, B., Brun, A., Andersson, M., Knutsson, H. (2009). On Geometric Transformations of Local Structure Tensors. In: Aja-Fernández, S., de Luis García, R., Tao, D., Li, X. (eds) Tensors in Image Processing and Computer Vision. Advances in Pattern Recognition. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-299-3_8
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