Image Moment - Central Moments

Central Moments

Central moments are defined as

where and are the components of the centroid.

If ƒ(x, y) is a digital image, then the previous equation becomes

The central moments of order up to 3 are:

It can be shown that:

Central moments are translational invariant.

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