Unit 2
Unit 2
IMAGE TRANSFORMS
The need for transform is most of the signals or images are time domain signal (ie)
signals can be measured with a function of time. This representation is not always best.
For most image processing applications anyone of the mathematical transformation are
applied to the signal or images to obtain further information from that signal.
Thus, a unitary transformation preserves the signal energy. This property is called
energy preservation property. This means that every unitary transformation is simply a
rotation of the vector f in the N - dimensional vector space.
Most unitary transforms pack a large fraction of the energy of the image into relatively
few of the transform coefficients. This means that relatively few of the transform
coefficients have significant values and these are the coefficients that are close to the
origin (small index coefficients).
1D & 2D DFT
Any function that periodically reports itself can be expressed as a sum of sines and
cosines of different frequencies each multiplied by a different coefficient, this sum is
called Fourier series. Even the functions which are non periodic but whose area under
the curve if finite can also be represented in such form; this is now called Fourier
transform. A function represented in either of these forms and can be completely
reconstructed via an inverse process with no loss of information.
THE DISCRETE COSINE TRANSFORM (DCT)
This is a transform that is similar to the Fourier transform in the sense that the new independent
variable represents again frequency. The DCT is defined below.
Sine Transform
In a similar form as the Walsh transform, the 2-D Hadamard transform is defined as
follows.
The Hadamard transform differs from the Walsh transform only in the order of basis
functions. The order of basis functions of the Hadamard transform does not allow the
fast computation of it by using a straightforward modification of the FFT. An extended
version of the Hadamard transform is the Ordered Hadamard Transform for which a
fast algorithm called Fast Hadamard Transform (FHT) can be applied.
Walsh Transform
The inverse Walsh transform is defined as follows for two dimensional signals.
Properties of the Walsh Transform
ions. We
can think of frequency as the number of zero crossings or the number of
transitions in a basis vector and we call this number sequency. The Walsh
transform exhibits the property of energy compaction as all the transforms that
we are currently studying
called Fast Walsh Transform (FWT). This is a straightforward modification of
the FFT.
Harr Transform
The harr function hk(x) are defined on a continuous interval, x ϵ [0,1], and
for k= 0 to N-1, where N=2n, The integer k can be uniquely decomposed as
K= 2p+q-1
Where 0≤p≤n-1
q=0,1 for p=0 and 1≤q≤2p.
For example, N=4 we have
Slant transform
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