Radial Zernike moment invariants

Radial Zernike moment invariants are special case from the complex Zernike moment invariants. The radial and angular dependence of Zernike moments is naturally separable which makes them very suitable features for achieving rotational invariances. The major drawback of Zernike moments in general and radial Zernike moments in particular is the scale and translation invariance can only be achieved by relating them to the central regular moments. In this paper we explicitly make radial Zernike moments invariant to scale, translation and rotation directly without the need to use the regular moments. The proposed form of radial Zernike moment invariants is extensively tested using several gray level images. The results clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of this method and superiority over the traditional Zernike moment invariants.

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