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This work presents a novel rotational invariant quadrature filter approach - called the conformal monogenic signal - for analyzing i(ntrinsic)1D and i2D local features of any curved 2D signal such as lines, edges, corners and junctions without the use of steering. The conformal monogenic signal contains the monogenic signal as a special case for i1D signals and combines monogenic scale space, phase, direction/orientation, energy and curvature in one unified algebraic framework. The conformal monogenic signal will be theoretically illustrated and motivated in detail by the relation of the 3D Radon transform and the generalized Hilbert transform on the sphere. The main idea is to lift up 2D signals to the higher dimensional conformal space where the signal features can be analyzed with more degrees of freedom. Results of this work are the low computational time complexity, the easy implementation into existing Computer Vision applications and the numerical robustness of determining curvature without the need of any derivatives.
We acknowledge funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under the project SO 320/4-2
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Wietzke, L., Fleischmann, O., Sommer, G. (2008). 2D Image Analysis by Generalized Hilbert Transforms in Conformal Space. In: Forsyth, D., Torr, P., Zisserman, A. (eds) Computer Vision – ECCV 2008. ECCV 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5303. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88688-4_47
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