Shape, color and texture are the most important discriminative elements for content based image retrieval. Fourier descriptors are widely used in shape based image retrieval problems. This paper presents a novel method of extracting Fourier descriptors from the simplest shape signature -complex coordinates. Instead of the commonly used scale normalization with the magnitude of the first harmonic, normalization with the sum of magnitudes of all harmonics is used. This leads to an improved shape scale normalization. All the experimental results indicate that the proposed method outperforms many other stateof-the-art Fourier descriptors based methods, both in terms of retrieval performance and computational time.
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