Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 185303, 15 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/185303
Research Article

Robust Affine Invariant Descriptors

1College of Math and Physics, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing 210044, China
2College of Mathematics and Computational Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China

Received 28 January 2011; Accepted 18 February 2011

Academic Editor: Ming Li

Copyright © 2011 Jianwei Yang et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract

An approach is developed for the extraction of affine invariant descriptors by cutting object into slices. Gray values associated with every pixel in each slice are summed up to construct affine invariant descriptors. As a result, these descriptors are very robust to additive noise. In order to establish slices of correspondence between an object and its affine transformed version, general contour (GC) of the object is constructed by performing projection along lines with different polar angles. Consequently, affine in-variant division curves are derived. A slice is formed by points fall in the region enclosed by two adjacent division curves. To test and evaluate the proposed method, several experiments have been conducted. Experimental results show that the proposed method is very robust to noise.