Invariant Image Recognition by Zernike Moments

This correspondence addresses the problem of rotation, scale, and translation invariant recognition of images. A new set of Manuscript received August 29, 1988; revised October 13, 1989. Recommended for acceptance by C. Y. Suen. This work was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under Grant MDAA. Khotanzad is with the Image Processing and Analysis Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275. Y. H. Hong was with the Image Processing and Analysis Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX 75275. He is now with Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX . 903-86-C-0182. IEEE Log Number 8933763. __