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Thursday, 8 March 2018

Extracting Centre Of Mass In A Binary Pattern using MATLAB

Extraction of centre of mass of a binary pattern is an important task in pattern recognition area in digital image processing domain. The pattern’s shape and size can be estimated using the radii profile that is computed around the centre of mass. The centre of mass of a binary pattern is computed using the first order moments of the pattern pixel’s Cartesian Coordinates. For all, very firstly the pattern is converted to a binary class i.e. pattern as in black on a white color background or vice versa. Black and white colors are attributed as 0 and 1 respectively (binary form) in digital image processing.
In matlab IDE, the image dimensions are taken as row x column. The pixel at (0,0) location is at top left corner of the image (refer to figure-1). An example pixel at location (3,7) is shown as F(3,7).
Image as matrix of Rows and Columns
Figure-1: Image as matrix of Rows and Columns
A grey color pattern of size 7×5 is shown in figure-2. It is converted to binary pattern as shown in figure-3. The grey pattern can be binarized using the Otsu algorithm. The equivalent binary pattern is shown in figure-3.
Grey Pattern
Figure-2: Grey Pattern
Figure-3: Binary Pattern
Figure-3: Binary Pattern
The binary image pattern (figure-3) is scanned from left to right and top to bottom i.e. in row x column manner. This is also called as raster scan. This task is performed by using the imread() function in matlab. The imread() function enables to have the binary image pattern in row x column matrix of ‘0’ and ‘1’ as black and white pixels. The matrix size is (row x column) i.e. 15×15 as in figure-3.
The centre of mass of the pattern under test is computed using the first order moments of the Cartesian coordinates of the pattern’s pixels i.e. the pixels with black in color or the matrix elements with zero value. The first order moments are computed by using the following equations:
Where (RCoM, CCoM) are the row and column coordinate of the centre of mass of the pattern under test.
(Ri, Ci) are the ith pixel coordinate of the pattern i.e. matrix elements with zero value, and,
‘N’ is the total no. of pixels on pattern body i.e. no. of matrix elements with zero value.
From figure-3, the centre of mass is given by the followings:
RCoM = (4+5+6+7+8+4+5+6+7+8+4+5+6+7+8+4+5+6+7+8+4+5+6

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