Matlab Fourier descriptors, what's wrong?

Question

I use the Gonzalez function frdescpto get the Fourier descriptors of the border. I use this code, and I get two completely different sets of numbers describing two identical, but different in scale figures.

So what's wrong?

im = imread('c:\classes\a1.png');
im = im2bw(im);
b = bwboundaries(im);
f = frdescp(b{1}); // fourier descriptors for the boundary of the first object ( my   pic only contains one object anyway )
// Normalization
f = f(2:20); // getting the first 20 & deleting the dc component
f = abs(f) ;
f = f/f(1);

Why do I get different descriptors for the same - but different on the scale - two circles?

Answer 1

The problem is that the code frdescp(I used this code that should match the one you specified) is also written in order to center the Fourier descriptors.

, , , DC.

:

( , ), :

function descriptors = fourierdescriptor( boundary )
    %I assume that the boundary is a N x 2 matrix
    %Also, N must be an even number

    np = size(boundary, 1);

    s = boundary(:, 1) + i*boundary(:, 2);

    descriptors = fft(s);

    descriptors = [descriptors((1+(np/2)):end); descriptors(1:np/2)];
end

function significativedescriptors = getsignificativedescriptors( alldescriptors, num )
    %num is the number of significative descriptors (in your example, is was 20)
    %In the following, I assume that num and size(alldescriptors,1) are even numbers

    dim = size(alldescriptors, 1);

    if num >= dim
        significativedescriptors = alldescriptors;
    else
        a = (dim/2 - num/2) + 1;
        b = dim/2 + num/2;

        significativedescriptors = alldescriptors(a : b);
    end
end

, :

im = imread('test.jpg');
im = im2bw(im);
b = bwboundaries(im);
b = b{1};

%force the number of boundary points to be even
if mod(size(b,1), 2) ~= 0
    b = [b; b(end, :)];
end

%define the number of significative descriptors I want to extract (it must be even)
numdescr = 20;

%Now, you can extract all fourier descriptors...
f = fourierdescriptor(b);
%...and get only the most significative:
f_sign = getsignificativedescriptors(f, numdescr);

Answer 2

.

, , , DC. f * 1= f 1/f [0], f * [2]/f [0] .. , DC-, f (1) DC- "f = f (2:20);% 20 " , , , DC-, :

% Normalization
DC = f(1);
f = f(2:20); % getting the first 20 & deleting the dc component
f = abs(f) ; % use magnitudes to be invariant to translation & rotation
f = f/DC; % divide the Fourier coefficients by the DC-coefficient to be invariant to scale