Image Representation With Gabor Wavelets And Its Applications

Introduction II. Joint space-frequency representations and wavelets. A. Joint representations. Wigner distribution, spectrogram and block transforms. B. Wavelets. C. Multiresolution pyramids. D. Vision oriented models. III. Gabor Schemes of Representation. A. Exact Gabor expansion for a continuous function. B. Gabor expansion of discrete signals. C. Quasicomplete Gabor transform. IV. Vision Modeling. A. Image representation in the visual cortex. B. Gabor functions and the RFs of cortical cells. C. Sampling in the human visual system. V. Image Coding, Enhancement and Reconstruction. A. Image coding and compression. B. Image enhancement and reconstruction. VI. Image Analysis and Machine Vision. A. Edge Detection. B. Texture. C. Motion Analysis. D. Stereo. VII. Conclusion. Acknowledgements. References. 3 I. INTRODUCTION In image analysis and processing, there is a classical choice between spatial or frequency domain representations. The former, consisting of a two-dime