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The Log-polar Image Representation in Pattern Recognition Tasks

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Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2003)

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This paper is a review of works about the use of the log-polar image model for pattern recognition purposes. Particular attention is paid to the rotation- and scale-invariant pattern recognition problem, which is simplified by the log-polar mapping. In spite of this advantage, ordinary translations become a complicated image transform in the log-polar domain. Two approaches addressing the estimation of translation, rotation and scaling are compared. One of them, developed by the authors, takes advantage of the principles of the active vision paradigm.

Research partly funded by Conselleria d’Educació, Cultura i Cincia, Generalitat Valenciana, under project CTIDIB/2002/333.

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  1. Unitat de Gràfics i Visió per Ordinador Departament de Ciències Matemàtiques i Informàtica, Universitat de les Illes Balears Edifici Anselm Turmeda, Ctra. de Valldemossa km 7,5, 07122, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

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  2. FEUP - Faculdade de Engenharia, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, 4200-465, Porto, Portugal

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  3. Departamento de Ciencias da la Computacíon e I.A., Universidad de Granada, E.T. S. Ing. Informática, 18071, Granada, Spain

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  4. Dept. System Engineering and Automation, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) Barcelona, Spain

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Traver, V.J., Pla, F. (2003). The Log-polar Image Representation in Pattern Recognition Tasks. In: Perales, F.J., Campilho, A.J.C., de la Blanca, N.P., Sanfeliu, A. (eds) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. IbPRIA 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2652. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44871-6_119

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