Simulation Research of Applying Two-dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition on Image Feature Extraction

The edge feature extraction of image is one of the research fields of image processing theory and application. The traditional methods of image feature extraction are simple and proficient, but the accurate performance of the feature extracted is not even higher. As such, a new method for extracting image edge feature was proposed by using the two-dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition (2-D EMD) and Riesz Transform. Firstly, the image was decomposed to multi-level Intrinsic) Mode Function (IMF) by 2-D EMD, and then the Riesz Transform with stronger local preserving ability was used for analyzing their local properties instead of the Hilbert Transform, by which the edge feature extraction with higher resolution was carried on. Finally, simulation shows that the proposed method is feasible and valid.