GABOR - Gabor Features in Signal and Image Processing

Active research on Gabor filter based image and signal processing since 2000...
2-D Gabor filter
"You can't predict the future, but you can invent it."
- Dennis Gabor

Goals

This research topic started as a research project in 2000, but has now extended to a complete research area which is studied in many projects of Machine Vision and Pattern Recognition Research Group at Lappeenranta University of Technology. The latest results you can examine by viewing our current projects or latest articles.

The goal of this research area is to investigate Gabor filter based image processing, especially feature extraction, which has applications in computer vision problems.

Sub-projects

This research area benefits from contributions from the following projects
  1. OBJECT - Object Detection and Recognition
    1. EVEX - Object Evidence Extraction
      1. SIMPLEGABOR - Simple Gabor Feature Space
  2. FACEDETECT - Face Detection
  3. SHIFTABILITY - Shiftability of Frames
  4. SIGDIG - Signal Discrimination for Condition Monitoring

News

A very efficient object detection and localisation method based on our Gabor filters will be presented in the ICCV2007 Workshop.

Contact information

Joni Kämäräinen E-mail WWW Project leader, research fellow
Jarmo Ilonen E-mail WWW PhD student
Ville Kyrki E-mail WWW Post-doc researcher
Heikki Kälviäinen E-mail WWW Professor

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Source code

  1. Gabor Features in Signal and Image Processing Toolbox for Matlab (Deprecated - for 2-D use SimpleGabor Toolbox)
  2. SimpleGabor Toolbox for Matlab - Multiresolution Gabor Feature Toolbox

Data sets

  1. electroniccomponents02 - Electronic components data set 02.
  2. symbollibrary01 - Symbol library data generation source 02.

Links to other resources

Gabor intensive research groups
The NuHAG Gabor Server
Researchers contributed to the research on Gabor features
Prof. Dennis Gabor
Prof. David Casasent
Prof. Gösta H. Granlund
Prof. J. Daugman
Prof. M.J. Bastiaans
Prof. A.J.E.M. Janssen
Prof. C. von der Malsburg
Prof. Tai Sing Lee
Research groups utilizing Gabor features
State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Tsihngua University (prof X. Ding)
Computer Vision Laboratory, Institute for System and Robotics (Prof Santos-Victor)

Documentation

Do not hesitate to to contact authors (e-mail, etc.) in order to retrieve copies or reprints of the following publications.

  1. Articles in international scientific journals with referee practice
    1. Ville Kyrki, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Pattern Recognition Letters, Simple Gabor Feature Space for Invariant Object Recognition, (2004) pp. 311--318, No. 3 Vol. 25
    2. Miroslav Hamouz, Josef Kittler, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Pekka Paalanen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Jiri Matas, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Feature-Based Affine-Invariant Localization of Faces, (2005) pp. 1490-1495, No. 9 Vol. 27
    3. Jarmo Ilonen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Tuomo Lindh, Jero Ahola, Heikki Kälviäinen, Jarmo Partanen, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Diagnosis Tool for Motor Condition Monitoring, (2005) pp. 963-971, No. 4 Vol. 41
    4. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Heikki Kälviäinen, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Invariance Properties of Gabor Filter Based Features - Overview and Applications, (2006) pp. 1088-1099, No. 5 Vol. 15
    5. Jouni Sampo, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Matti Heiliö, Heikki Kälviäinen, Computers & Mathematics with Applications, Measuring Translation Shiftability of Frames, (2006) pp. 1089-1098, No. 6 Vol. 52
    6. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Heikki Kälviäinen, Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Local and Global Gabor Features for Object Recognition, (2007) pp. 93-105, No. 1 Vol. 17
    7. Jarmo Ilonen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Pekka Paalanen, Miroslav Hamouz, Josef Kittler, Heikki Kälviäinen, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Image feature localization by multiple hypothesis testing of Gabor features, (2008) pp. 311-325, No. 3 Vol. 17
  2. Articles in international compilation works and in international scientific conference proceedings with referee practice
    1. Ville Kyrki, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, 12th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Invariant Shape Recognition using Global Gabor Features, (2001) pp. 671--678,
    2. Ville Kyrki, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, ACIVS 2001 3rd International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems Theory and Applications, Content-Based Image Matching Using Gabor Filtering, (2001) pp. 45--49,
    3. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Miroslav Hamouz, Josef Kittler, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, Invariant Gabor Features for Face Evidence Extraction, (2002) pp. 228-231,
    4. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP2002), Noise Tolerant Object Recognition Using Gabor Filtering, (2002) pp. 1349-1352,
    5. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2002), Fundamental Frequency Gabor Filters for Object Recognition, (2002) pp. 628-631,
    6. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proceedings of IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2002), Roboustness of Gabor Feature Parameter Selection, (2002) pp. 132-135,
    7. Miroslav Hamouz, Josef Kittler, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the 4th Int. Conf. on the Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication, Affine Invariant Localization of Faces in Verification Systems, (2003) pp. 276-284,
    8. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Tuomo Lindh, Jero Ahola, Jarmo Partanen, Proc. of the Finnish Signal Processing Symp. (FINSIG03), Statistical Signal Discrimination for Condition Diagnosis, (2003) pp. 195-198,
    9. Miroslav Hamouz, Josef Kittler, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the 4th Int. Conf. on the Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA2003), Hypotheses-Driven Affine Invariant Localization of Faces in Verification Systems, (2003) pp. 276-284,
    10. Tuomo Lindh, Jero Ahola, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Jarmo Partanen, Proc. of the 4th IEEE Int. Symp. on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives, Bearing Damage Detection Based on Statistical Discrimination of Stator Current, (2003) pp. 177-181,
    11. Ville Kyrki, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Conce pts for Intelligent Vision Systems Theory and Applications, Simple Gabor Feature Space for Invariant Object Recognition, (2003) pp. 46--51,
    12. Jouni Sampo, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Matti Heiliö, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Signal Processing Symbosium (NORSIG 2004), Measuring Shiftability of Frames of Regular Translates, (2004) pp. 89-92,
    13. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Fundamental Frequency and Global Gabor Features, (2004) pp. 256-259,
    14. Jarmo Ilonen, Pekka Paalanen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Tuomo Lindh, Jero Ahola, Heikki Kälviäinen, Jarmo Partanen, Proc. of the 14th Scandinavian Conf. of Image Analysis, Toward Automatic Motor Condition Diagnosis, (2005) pp. 971-977,
    15. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Jarmo Ilonen, Pekka Paalanen, Miroslav Hamouz, Heikki Kälviäinen, Josef Kittler, Proc. of the 14th Scandinavian Conf. of Image Analysis, Object Evidence Extraction Using Simple Gabor Features and Statistical Ranking, (2005) pp. 119-129,
    16. Jarmo Ilonen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Proc. of the Int. Joint Conf. on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Object categorization using self-organization over visual appearance, (2006) pp. 4549-4553,
    17. Jarmo Ilonen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Proc. of the 14th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP2007), Fast extraction of multi-resolution Gabor features, (2007) pp. 481-486,
    18. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Miroslav Hamouz, Josef Kittler, Pekka Paalanen, Jarmo Ilonen, Alexander Drobchenko, Proc. of the ICCV 2007 Workshop on Non-Rigid Registration and Tracking Through Learning (NRTL2007), Object Localisation Using Generative Probability Model for Spatial Constellation and Local Image Features, (2007)
    19. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Jarmo Ilonen, 20th Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010), Learning and Detection of Object Landmarks in Canonical Object Space, (2010)
  3. Scientific monographs
    1. Ville Kyrki, Ph.D thesis, Local and Global Feature Extraction for Invariant Object Recognition, (2002)
    2. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ph.D thesis, Feature Extraction Using Gabor Filters, (2003) pdf (2.47 MB)
    3. Jarmo Ilonen, Ph.D thesis, Supervised local image feature detection, (2007) pdf (10.26 MB)
  4. Other Scientific Publications
    1. Jarmo Ilonen, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Efficient Computation of Gabor Features, (2005) No. 100 pdf (1.06 MB)
    2. Ville Kyrki, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Heikki Kälviäinen, Invariant Shape Recognition Using Global Gabor Features, (2000) No. 72
    3. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Heikki Kälviäinen, Fundamental Frequency Gabor Filters for Object Recognition, (2002) No. 78
    4. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Heikki Kälviäinen, Gabor Features for Invariant Object Recognition, (2002) No. 79
    5. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Tuomo Lindh, Signal Discrimination Based on Power Spectrum of Filter Response, (2002) No. 80
    6. Ville Kyrki, Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Simple Gabor Feature Space for Invariant Object Recognition, (2003) No. 83
    7. Joni-Kristian Kämäräinen, Ville Kyrki, Heikki Kälviäinen, Fundamental Frequency and Global Gabor Features, (2005) pp. 203-207, No. 1 Vol. 15