Gabor frames, especially digital Gabor filters, have long been known as indispensable tools for local time-frequency analysis of discrete signals. With strong orientation selectivity, tensor products discrete (tight) Gabor frames also see their applications in image analysis and restoration. However, the lack of multi-scale structures existing in MRA-based wavelet (tight) frames makes discrete ...

This paper presents a model-based object recognition approach that uses a Gabor wavelet representation. The key idea is to use magnitude, phase, and frequency measures of the Gabor wavelet representation in an innovative flexible matching approach that can provide robust recognition. The Gabor grid, a topology-preserving map, efficiently encodes both signal energy and structural information of ...

This paper presents a model-based object recognition approach that uses a hierarchical Gabor wavelet representation. The key idea is to use magnitude, phase and frequency measures of Gabor wavelet representation in an innovative flexible matching approach that can provide robust recognition. A Gabor gr id , a topology-preserving map, eficiently encodes both signal energy and structural informat...

Writer identification is an important and active branch of biometrics, which means the methods for uniquely recognizing humans based upon their intrinsic physical or behavioral traits. In this paper, we propose one new method for off-line, textindependent writer identification by using the fractal dimension of wavelet subbands in Gabor domain of the handwriting images. In this method, the handw...

in this paper, a new method is presented for the detection of defects in random textures. in the training stage, the feature vectors of the normal textures’ images are extracted by using the optimal response of gabor wavelet filters, and their probability density is estimated by means of the gaussian mixture model (gmm). in the testing stage, similar to the previous stage,at  first, the feature...

A face aging/reverse-aging synthesis method based on face detection and Log-Gabor wavelet is proposed. Source images are first captured by the AdaBoost face detection algorithm and then individually normalized. A reference image from the target age group that closely resembles the test subject’s face is then selected. Because the Log-Gabor wavelet is characterized by a broader bandwidth and tak...

This term project report introduces the well-know Gabor wavelet transform and its applications. Wavelet transform could extract both the time (spatial) and frequency information from a given signal, and the tunable kernel size allows it to perform multi-resolution analysis. Among kinds of wavelet transforms, the Gabor wavelet transform has some impressive mathematical and biological properties ...

Complex approximately analytic wavelets provide a local multiscale description of images with good directional selectivity and invariance to shifts and in-plane rotations. Similar to Gabor wavelets, they are insensitive to illumination variations and facial expression changes. The complex wavelet transform is, however, less redundant and computationally efficient. In this paper, we first constr...

This paper first analyzes the one-dimensional Gabor function and expands it to a two-dimensional one. The two-dimensional Gabor function generates the two-dimensional Gabor wavelet through measure stretching and rotation. At last, the two-dimensional Gabor wavelet transform is employed to extract the image feature information. Based on the back propagation (BP) neural network model, the image i...

In this article we want to introduce first the Gabor wavelet network as a model based approach for an effective and efficient object representation. The Gabor wavelet network has several advantages such as invariance to some degree with respect to translation, rotation and dilation. Furthermore, the use of Gabor filters ensured that geometrical and textural object features are encoded. The feas...