“…With these properties, Zernike moments have been widely used in a variety of fields: invariant pattern or object recognition [5,25,13,40,24,29], image reconstruction [36,31], image segmentation [12], edge detection [11], context-based image retrieval [27], face recognition [15], gait recognition [47] and biomedical imaging [41,22]. Additionally, higher-order Zernike moments have been used in several applications such as in image watermarking [26,6], moving object reconstruction [37], and peg-free hand shape verification [3].…”