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- From: fernando@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Fernando Pineda)
- Subject: Re:Recognizing object using fractal models
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- Reply-To: fernando@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu (Fernando J. Pineda)
- Organization: Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Labs
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:55:27 GMT
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- I've been thinking about pattern recognition with fractals too, but I
- always come to a basic problem with the block-wise fractal transformations:
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- The coefficients are not robust with
- respect to perturbations of the image. Two images that are very similar
- can have very different affine coefficients. The reason, if you haven't
- seen this yourself, is that in the search for domain blocks the algorithm tries
- to find the domain block with the smallest error. Two domain blocks from wildly
- different parts of the image can have close and small, errors. Consequently, a
- small change in the image can favor one domain over another. The affine
- coefficients of these two domains can be very different. So a small change in
- the image can result in a large change in the affine coefficients.
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- I conclude that the block-wise fractal transform is not a very good candidate
- for pattern recognition applications. Any comments?
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- Is anyone aware of other fractal transforms that might be better?
-
- Fernando Pineda (fernando@aplcomm.jhuapl.edu)
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