Affine invariant feature extraction algorithm based on multiscale autoconvolution combining with texture structure analysis

Abstract

Affine invariant feature extraction has been one of the key issues for object recognition, especially for the images captured under the variable environments. Considering that multiscale autoconvolution feature (MSA), which has the prominent comprehensive performance, is very sensitive to illumination change, a novel algorithm of extracting affine invariant feature is proposed based on the MSA transform combining with texture structure analysis. Firstly, a new MSA feature is extracted from texture structure map of the image which is computed based on local binary pattern theory. And then the original image based MSA and the texture map based MSA are combined to a new feature using generalized canonical correlation analysis, called TFMSA. This new feature represents much more image information than the traditional one and is performed in various object recognition tasks. The experimental results indicate that the new TFMSA not only conquers the defect of the traditional MSA, but also has good adaptability for a certain range of viewing angles, partial occlusion, uniform and non-uniform illumination changes. The recognition accuracy of the new feature is superior to MSA and other improved methods.