Fuzzy Clustering of Image Trademark Database and Preprocessing using Adaptive filter and Karhunen-LOèVE Transform

In this paper an efficient preprocessing module has been described which focuses on building a trademark database that can be used for developing a trademark retrieval system. The preprocessing module focuses on noise removal from the trademark images using an adaptive filtering technique using Wiener filters, followed by Karhunen-Loève Transform that makes the trademark search process rotation invariant by rotating the object along positive y direction. Since the registered trademarks are huge in number and will increase invariantly in the future it will be strenuous for the search system to search for similarity in such huge database. Intention is to reduce the search space hence Fuzzy Clustering has been applied. Key terms-Noise removal, Weiner filter, Hotelling transform, Karhunen-Loève transform, Fuzzy Clustering