Using phase information for symmetry detection

@article{citeulike:384574, abstract = {Symmetry exists widely in the real world and plays a remarkable role in perception problems. The existing symmetry detection algorithms are mainly based on luminance or gradient information. Upon analyzing the relationship between symmetry and phase, based on phase congruency, we propose a phase-based symmetry detection (PSD) algorithm. PSD is calculated based on log Gabor wavelet. The symmetric points of objects are obtained by inspecting the phase information. The feasibility analysis, phase-based symmetry detection definition, and rationality demonstrations established the theoretic foundation for this algorithm. The experiments show that this algorithm can be applied directly to original images without segmentation--it is invariant to rotation, luminance and contrast--and it can detect several types of symmetries at the same time and it is compared with several other methods.}, author = {Xiao, Zhitao and Hou, Zhengxin and Miao, Changyun and Wang, Jianming }, citeulike-article-id = {384574}, doi = {10.1016/j.patrec.2005.02.003}, journal = {Pattern Recognition Letters}, keywords = {image-processing, phase, symmetry}, month = {October}, number = {13}, pages = {1985--1994}, posted-at = {2005-11-09 13:29:27}, priority = {4}, title = {Using phase information for symmetry detection}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2005.02.003}, volume = {26}, year = {2005} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:384574 L3 - citeulike-article-id:384574 TI - Using phase information for symmetry detection JF - Pattern Recognition Letters VL - 26 IS - 13 SP - 1985 EP - 1994 N2 - Symmetry exists widely in the real world and plays a remarkable role in perception problems. The existing symmetry detection algorithms are mainly based on luminance or gradient information. Upon analyzing the relationship between symmetry and phase, based on phase congruency, we propose a phase-based symmetry detection (PSD) algorithm. PSD is calculated based on log Gabor wavelet. The symmetric points of objects are obtained by inspecting the phase information. The feasibility analysis, phase-based symmetry detection definition, and rationality demonstrations established the theoretic foundation for this algorithm. The experiments show that this algorithm can be applied directly to original images without segmentation--it is invariant to rotation, luminance and contrast--and it can detect several types of symmetries at the same time and it is compared with several other methods. KW - image-processing KW - phase KW - symmetry AU - Xiao, Zhitao AU - Hou, Zhengxin AU - Miao, Changyun AU - Wang, Jianming PY - 2005/10/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2005.02.003 ER -