Detecting Directionality in Random Fields Using the Monogenic Signal

DOI10.1109/TIT.2014.2342734zbMATH Open1360.94115arXiv1304.2998MaRDI QIDQ2986114FDOQ2986114

Authors: Sofia C. Olhede, David M. Ramirez, Peter J. Schreier 

Publication date: 16 May 2017

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Detecting and analyzing directional structures in images is important in many applications since one-dimensional patterns often correspond to important features such as object contours or trajectories. Classifying a structure as directional or non-directional requires a measure to quantify the degree of directionality and a threshold, which needs to be chosen based on the statistics of the image. In order to do this, we model the image as a random field. So far, little research has been performed on analyzing directionality in random fields. In this paper, we propose a measure to quantify the degree of directionality based on the random monogenic signal, which enables a unique decomposition of a 2D signal into local amplitude, local orientation, and local phase. We investigate the second-order statistical properties of the monogenic signal for isotropic, anisotropic, and unidirectional random fields. We analyze our measure of directionality for finite-size sample images, and determine a threshold to distinguish between unidirectional and non-unidirectional random fields, which allows the automatic classification of images.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1304.2998

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Detection theory in information and communication theory (94A13)

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• Monogenic Signal Theory
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