【CBIR】【Color】颜色矩（Color Moment）1

颜色矩（Color Moment）

Stricker和Orengo提出了颜色矩的方法[1]，颜色矩是一种简单有效的颜色特征表示方法，有一阶矩(均值,mean)、二阶矩(方差,viarance)和三阶矩(斜度,skewness)等，由于颜色信息主要分布于低阶矩中，所以用一阶矩，二阶矩和三阶矩足以表达图像的颜色分布，颜色矩已证明可有效地表示图像中的颜色分布，该方法的优点在于：不需要颜色空间量化，特征向量维数低；但实验发现该方法的检索效率比较低，因而在实际应用中往往用来过滤图像以缩小检索范围。

[1]Stricker, Markus A., and Markus Orengo. "Similarity of color images." IS&T/SPIE's Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science & Technology . International Society for Optics and Photonics, 1995.

From WiKi

Color moments are scaling and rotation invariant. It is usually the case that only the first three color moments are used as features in image retrieval applications as most of the color distribution information is contained in the low-order moments.^[1] Since color moments encode both shape and color information they are a good feature to use under changing lighting conditions, but they cannot handle occlusion very successfully.^[2] Color moments can be computed for any color model. Three color moments are computed per channel (e.g. 9 moments if the color model is RGB and 12 moments if the color model is CMYK). Computing color moments is done in the same way as computing moments of a prob