Computing object statistics from the second central moments

Question

I\'m currently working on writing a version of the MATLAB RegionProps function for GNU Octave. I have most of it implemented, but I\'m still struggling with the implementat

Answer 1

EDIT:

According to Wikipedia:

the eignevalues [...] are proportional to the squared length of the eigenvector axes.

which is explained by:

axisLength = 4 * sqrt(eigenValue)

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Shown below is my version of the code (I vectorized the moments functions):

my_regionprops.m

function props = my_regionprops(im)
    cm00 = central_moments(im, 0, 0);
    up20 = central_moments(im, 2, 0) / cm00;
    up02 = central_moments(im, 0, 2) / cm00;
    up11 = central_moments(im, 1, 1) / cm00;

    covMat = [up20 up11 ; up11 up02];
    [V,D] = eig( covMat );
    [D,order] = sort(diag(D), 'descend');        %# sort cols high to low
    V = V(:,order);

    %# D(1) = (up20+up02)/2 + sqrt(4*up11^2 + (up20-up02)^2)/2;
    %# D(2) = (up20+up02)/2 - sqrt(4*up11^2 + (up20-up02)^2)/2;

    props = struct();
    props.MajorAxisLength = 4*sqrt(D(1));
    props.MinorAxisLength = 4*sqrt(D(2));
    props.Eccentricity = sqrt(1 - D(2)/D(1));
    %# props.Orientation = -atan(V(2,1)/V(1,1)) * (180/pi);      %# sign?
    props.Orientation = -atan(2*up11/(up20-up02))/2 * (180/pi);
end

function cmom = central_moments(im,i,j)
    rawm00 = raw_moments(im,0,0);
    centroids = [raw_moments(im,1,0)/rawm00 , raw_moments(im,0,1)/rawm00];
    cmom = sum(sum( (([1:size(im,1)]-centroids(2))'.^j * ...
                     ([1:size(im,2)]-centroids(1)).^i) .* im ));
end

function outmom = raw_moments(im,i,j)
    outmom = sum(sum( ((1:size(im,1))'.^j * (1:size(im,2)).^i) .* im ));
end

... and the code to test it:

test.m

I = imread('135deg100by30ell.png');
I = logical(I);

>> p = regionprops(I, {'Eccentricity' 'MajorAxisLength' 'MinorAxisLength' 'Orientation'})
p = 
    MajorAxisLength: 101.34
    MinorAxisLength: 32.296
       Eccentricity: 0.94785
        Orientation: -44.948

>> props = my_regionprops(I)
props = 
    MajorAxisLength: 101.33
    MinorAxisLength: 32.275
       Eccentricity: 0.94792
        Orientation: -44.948

%# these values are by hand only ;)
subplot(121), imshow(I), imdistline(gca, [17 88],[9 82]);
subplot(122), imshow(I), imdistline(gca, [43 67],[59 37]);

Answer 2

Are you sure about the core of your raw_moments function? You might try

amount = ((x-1) ** i) * ((y-1) ** j) * im(y,x);

This doesn't seem like enough to cause the problems you're seeing, but it might be at least a part.