Normalize image orientation and scale

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Hg
Hg on 29 Oct 2015
Commented: Hg on 29 Oct 2015
I want to normalize the orientation and scale of these images before I do a similarity measure. How can I achieve this using PCA? Is there any other ways?

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Image Analyst
Image Analyst on 29 Oct 2015
To apply PCA to an image, see this link: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/167938#answer_163231 I don't think it will work, though you can try. Make sure you pass it the location of the black pixels, not the image gray levels.
I'd probably use a radon transform. See my attached demo where I use the radon transform to figure out the angle and rotate the image.
% Demo to use the radon transform to determine the angle to rotate an image to straighten it.
% Initialization / clean-up code.
clc; % Clear the command window.
close all; % Close all figures (except those of imtool.)
clear; % Erase all existing variables. Or clearvars if you want.
workspace; % Make sure the workspace panel is showing.
format long g;
format compact;
fontSize = 20;
% Read in the color demo image.
[rgbImage, colorMap] = imread('football.jpg');
subplot(2, 3, 1);
imshow(rgbImage, colorMap);
axis on;
title('Original Color Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Enlarge figure to full screen.
set(gcf, 'Units', 'Normalized', 'OuterPosition', [0 0 1 1]);
% Extract the red channel and display it.
grayImage = rgbImage(:, :, 1);
subplot(2, 3, 2);
imshow(grayImage, colorMap);
axis on;
title('Red Channel Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Do the Radon transform.
theta = 0:180;
[R,xp] = radon(grayImage,theta);
% Find the location of the peak of the radon transform image.
maxR = max(R(:));
[rowOfMax, columnOfMax] = find(R == maxR)
% Display the Radon Transform image.
h3 = subplot(2, 3, [3,6]);
imshow(R,[],'Xdata',theta,'Ydata',xp,...
'InitialMagnification','fit')
axis on;
% Plot a blue circle over the max.
hold on;
plot(h3, columnOfMax, xp(rowOfMax), 'bo', 'MarkerSize', 30, 'LineWidth', 3);
line([columnOfMax, columnOfMax], [xp(end), xp(rowOfMax)+15], 'Color', 'b', 'LineWidth', 3);
caption = sprintf('Radon Transform. Max at angle %.1f', columnOfMax);
title(caption, 'FontSize', fontSize);
xlabel('\theta (degrees)', 'FontSize', fontSize)
ylabel('x''', 'FontSize', fontSize)
colormap(h3, hot(256));
colorbar;
% The column of the max is the angle of the football --
% the angle that the projected sum (profile) will have the highest sum.
% Rotate it by minus that angle to straighten it.
rotatedImage = imrotate(rgbImage, -columnOfMax);
% Display the rotated image.
subplot(2, 3, 4);
imshow(rotatedImage);
axis on;
title('Rotated Color Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
% Rotate perpendicular to that angle and display that rotation.
rotatedImage = imrotate(rgbImage, -columnOfMax+90);
subplot(2, 3, 5);
imshow(rotatedImage);
axis on;
title('Rotated Color Image', 'FontSize', fontSize);
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Hg
Hg on 29 Oct 2015
Great! I'll use that. How about normalizing the scale? Do you have any idea?

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