issue when quantifying logo symmetry
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Hi, I am trying to quantify the symmetry of logo images. So far, I have used the "immse" (mean square error) function and the "fliplr" in MatLab to compare the differences in mean square error (MSE) between the originial logo and the flipped version of the logo to quantify the symmetry. I am experiencing one issue atm with this approach and I need your help... When analysing logos that are 100% symmetric, the MSE can sometimes be super high when it should be extremely close to zero, since theres no differences between the original and flipped version. What may the issue be here? and any ideas on how to solve it?
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Walter Roberson
on 23 May 2020
regionprops(double(grayimage>0), 'centroid')
and observe that the centroid is 1 pixel to the right of where you would expect.
So construct a new image that is padded on the right with one column of 0. Run the immse and you will see a lower value.
I recommend that you imshow(imsubtract()) the two images to see visually how they are not quite symmetric. As I discussed earlier some of the problem is jpg blurring of edges.
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Image Analyst
on 23 May 2020
Edited: Image Analyst
on 23 May 2020
You have to make sure you're truly flipping about the true vertical axis, which I suspect you're not. You'd have to get rid of the TM in the Starbucks logo that is making the whole logo not symmetric.
Usually symmetry is computed using a symmetry metric like the Sørensen–Dice coefficient.
See attached demo.
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Image Analyst
on 2 Jul 2020
It was in the file:
%===============================================================================
% Get the thresholds from which we'll use to create two binary images:
function [lowThreshold, highThreshold] = GetThresholds(pixelCount, grayLevels)
cdf = cumsum(pixelCount);
cdf = cdf / cdf(end);
lowPercentage = 20;
lowThresholdIndex = find(cdf > lowPercentage / 100, 1, 'first');
lowThreshold = grayLevels(lowThresholdIndex);
highPercentage = 40;
highThresholdIndex = find(cdf > highPercentage / 100, 1, 'first');
highThreshold = grayLevels(highThresholdIndex);
Looks like you changed the name when you called it from GetThresholds to GetThersholds.
Tengbo Zhuang
on 2 Jul 2020
Right! Didn't notice that
I just tested Apple, I think it works now! (0.85) Thanks a lot!
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