The choice of an object representation is crucial for the effective performance of cognitive tasks such as object recognition, fixation, etc. because how robustly and efficiently vision tasks can be performed depends on the choice of the representation. In this work we introduce Gabor Wavelet Networks as an effective and efficient object representation. Gabor Wavelet Networks represent objects ...

Digital Gabor filters are indispensable tools of local time-frequency analysis in signal processing. With strong orientation selectivity, discrete (tight) Gabor frames generated by 2D Gabor filters also see their wide applications in image processing and volume data processing. However, owing to the lack of multi-scale structures, discrete Gabor frames are less effective than multiresolution an...

We describe a procedure that enables us to construct dual pairs of wavelet frames from certain dual pairs of Gabor frames. Applying the construction to Gabor frames generated by appropriate exponential Bsplines gives wavelet frames generated by functions whose Fourier transforms are compactly supported splines with geometrically distributed knot sequences. There is also a reverse transform, whi...

With an ever growing emphasis on security systems, automated personal identification based on biometrics has been getting extensive focus in both research and practical over the last decade. The methods for iris recognition mainly focus on feature representation and matching. As we known traditional iris recognition method is using Gabor Wavelet features, the iris recognition is performed by a ...

This paper presents an unsupervised method of texture classification by combining the two most commonly used multi-resolution, multi-channel filters: Gabor filters and wavelet transform. We used a set of 8 Gabor filters and 2 wavelet filters: Daubeschies and Haar, for our analysis. The parameters (viz. frequency, orientation and size) of the Gabor filter bank are obtained by trial and error met...

This work shows the use of a two-dimensional Gabor wavelets in image processing. Convolution with such a two-dimensional wavelet can be separated into two series of one-dimensional ones. The key idea of this work is to utilize a Gabor wavelet as a multiscale partial differential operator of a given order. Gabor wavelets are used here to detect edges, corners and blobs. A performance of such an ...

In this paper we first introduce the Gabor Wavelet Network (GWN) as a model-based approach for effective and efficient object representation. GWNs combine the advantages of the continuous wavelet transform with RBF networks. They have additional advantages such as invariance to some degree with respect to affine deformations. The use of Gabor filters enables the coding of geometrical and textur...

Gabor frames, especially digital Gabor filters, have long been known as indispensable tools for local time-frequency analysis of discrete signals. With strong orientation selectivity, tensor products discrete (tight) Gabor frames also see their applications in image analysis and restoration. However, the lack of multi-scale structures existing in MRA-based wavelet (tight) frames makes discrete ...

This paper presents a model-based object recognition approach that uses a Gabor wavelet representation. The key idea is to use magnitude, phase, and frequency measures of the Gabor wavelet representation in an innovative flexible matching approach that can provide robust recognition. The Gabor grid, a topology-preserving map, efficiently encodes both signal energy and structural information of ...