Shift- and scale-invariant pattern recognition using morphological phase-only correlation

We propose a non-linear correlation to realize scale-invariant recognition, called shift- and scale-invariant morphological phase-only correlation (SSIMPC), which is a combination of radial harmonic filter (RHF) and morphological phase-only correlation (MPC). We form SSIMPC using phase-only RHFs (PORHF) instead of common RHFs in every sub-correlations of morphological radial harmonic correlation (MRHC). Computer simulation results demonstrate that the performance of SSIMPC is better than that of MRHC in discrimination and robustness against non-Gaussian noise, such as salt-and-pepper noise and cluttered background, and above of all, SSIMOC realizes approximately full scale-invariance. In addition, we devise an optoelectronic scheme, which is identical to the setup for MPC, to implement SSIMPC. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.