Farhad Samadzadegan
This interest operator can be developed starting with elementary statistical texture parameters like local gradient
variances in x- and y-direction. From this parameters a roundness measure and a weight is derived which defines (non)
isotropy of texture in the window and the quality of point localisation, respectively.
The selection process involves thresholding of both parameters, the roundness measures and the weights. If, in addition,
classification between circular shaped features and junction points is taken into account a further sharp decision has ty
be made by carrying out a statistical test. In consequence, the results of the detection and classification process of the
interest operator might be different sets defined by all isotropic textured windows, by all highly weighted windows, by
circular features, by junctions or by general isotropic textures, respectively. In fuzzy set theory these are considered
classical sets with a crisp (well-defined or sharp) boundary rather than fuzzy sets.
Theoretically the interest point detection process my be fuzzified by introducing fuzzy sets instead of classical sets ang
fuzzy rules instead of rules with hard thresholds. But instead of working out exactly such an inference process we want
to use additional basic texture measures, in particular, the grey value mean and the grey value variance. Those measures
shall be merged with the Fórstner operator in a fuzzy reasoning system. In the following some of these criteria and rules
are discussed as an example.
Fuzzy Rules in the Detection Process
The following fuzzy rules are applied to interest windows, i.e. only those windows which are already detected and
selected by the interest operator by using low thresholds only.
Rule 1:
To avoid interest point extraction in predominantly dark or bright
areas (which are also avoided if point selection is carried out by
human operators) the mean grey scale in an interest. window
should be higher than 30 and lower than 230 (Figure 2).
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Rule 1. IF Mean Is Central THEN Probably Key Point ELSE Figure 2: Membership function of mean
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Rule 2:
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above a certain limit (Figure 3). The corresponding rule reads as ve iL} : ;
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Rule 2. IF Variance Is High THEN Probably Key Point ELSE
Probably No Key Point Figure 3: Membership function of variance
Some further rules are formulated which relate to the roundness and the weight measures of the interest operator
basically stating that the higher this measure are the higher is the probability for being an key point.
For all these fuzzy if-then rules the linguistic output is "key point". Applying the implication and aggregation steps leads
to the following membership function of key points (Figure 4). After defuzzification the resulting key point
probabilities are determined. All key points with probabilities higher than 50% are considered as detected points and are
plotted in Figure 5. Displayed are the detected points in three different levels of the image pyramid.
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Figure 5: Detected points based on implemented fuzzy
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Figure 4: Membership function of key points
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