Robust Affine Invariant Region-Based Shape Descriptors: The ICA Zernike Moment Shape Descriptor and the Whitening Zernike Moment Shape Descriptor
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Abstract
In this letter, we proposed two new affine invariant region-based shape descriptors, the ICA Zernike moment shape descriptor (ICAZMSD) and the whitening Zernike moment shape descriptor (WZMSD). Either independent component analysis (ICA) or whitening, is first used to turn the original shape into a canonical form, in which the effects of scaling and skewing are eliminated. Next, the properties of the Zernike transform are used to further eliminate the effects of any possible rotation and reflection of the canonical shapes, in extracting the Zernike moments as the affine invariant region-based descriptors. Using the proposed ICAZMSD as shape feature, shape-based image retrieval experiments on a 4000 complex shape image database and on a 5600 simple shape image database, show retrieval rates of 99.80% and 92.25%, respectively. Using the proposed WZMSD as shape feature, the corresponding retrieval rates are 99.79% and 92.22%, respectively. The proposed WZMSD has almost equal performance to the proposed ICAZMSD, while having lower computational requirements.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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