An algorithm for fast computation of 3D Zernike moments for volumetric images (Q1954699)

Summary: An algorithm is proposed for very fast and low-complexity computation of three-dimensional Zernike moments. The 3D Zernike moments are expressed in terms of exact 3D geometric moments where the later are computed exactly through the mathematical integration of the monomial terms over the digital image/object voxels. A new symmetry-based method is proposed to compute 3D Zernike moments with 87\% reduction in the computational complexity. A fast 1D cascade algorithm is also employed to add more complexity reduction. The comparison with existing methods is performed, where the numerical experiments and the complexity analysis ensured the efficiency of the proposed method especially with image and objects of large sizes.