Shape description is one of the key parts of image content description for image retrieval. Most of existing shape descriptors are usually either application dependent or non-robust, making them undesirable for generic shape description. In this paper, a generic Fourier descriptor (GFD) is proposed to overcome the drawbacks of existing shape representation techniques. The proposed shape descrip...

Shape description is one of the key parts of image content description in MPEG-7. Most of existing shape descriptors are usually either application dependent or non-robust, making them undesirable for generic shape description. In this paper, a generic Fourier descriptor (GFD) is proposed to overcome the drawbacks of existing shape representation techniques. The proposed shape descriptor is der...

The complex wave representation (CWR) converts unsigned 2D distance transforms into their corresponding wave functions. The underlying motivation for performing this maneuver is as follows: the normalized power spectrum of the wave function is an excellent approximation (at small values of Planck’s constant—here a free parameter τ) to the density function of the distance transform gradients. Or...