In mathematics, pseudo-Zernike polynomials are well known and widely used in the analysis of optical systems. They are also widely used in image analysis as shape descriptors.
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Definition
They are an orthogonal set of complex-valued polynomials defined as
where
where the star means complex conjugation, and
The radial polynomials
with integer coefficients
Examples
Examples are:
Moments
The pseudo-Zernike Moments (PZM) of order
where
The image function can be reconstructed by expansion of the pseudo-Zernike coefficients on the unit disk as
Pseudo-Zernike moments are derived from conventional Zernike moments and shown to be more robust and less sensitive to image noise than the Zernike moments.