Retrieving geometric distortion properties from image moments

Abstract

This paper presents a novel technique to determine image distortion properties, such as translation, scale, rotation and skew properties, by only using its moments. The properties are retrieved by solving the algebraic relationships between moment functions of original and geometrically distorted images. These properties, to the best of our knowledge, have yet to be presented in any papers. The derived distortion properties are experimentally validated using randomly scaled, rotated and skewed images. Promising results are produced from these experiments.