The principal components of natural images revisited.

Heidemann, Gunther · IEEE Trans Pattern Anal Mach Intell · 2006

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

This paper investigates the principal components (PCs) of natural gray and color images. A horizontal and vertical typology of PCs is found which leads to the identification of groups of basis functions for steerable bandpass filters. Using this system, the contribution of spatio-chromatic structure to the total variance can be quantified for selected spatial frequencies.

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