Structure tensor of colour quaternion image representations for invariant feature extraction

Jesus Angulo (1)

1 CMM - Centre de Morphologie Mathématique

Colour image representation using real quaternions has shown to be very useful for linear and morphological colour filtering. This paper deals with the extension of first derivatives-based structure tensor for various quaternionic colour image representations. Classical corner and edge features are obtained from eigenvalues of the quaternionic colour structure tensors. We study the properties of invariance of the quaternion colour spatial derivatives and their robustness for feature extraction on practical examples.

Mots clés: Colour image; Corner and edge features; Eigenvalues; First derivative; Image representations; Invariant feature extraction; Spatial derivatives; Structure tensors; Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions; Feature extraction; Tensors; Color

Domaines: Traitement des images [eess.IV]

Jesus Angulo. Structure tensor of colour quaternion image representations for invariant feature extraction. Second International Workshop on Computational Color Imaging, CCIW 2009, Mar 2009, Saint-Étienne, France. pp.91-100, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-03265-3_10⟩. ⟨hal-00834163⟩