National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.61272394, No.61472119, No.61572173, No.61472373, No.61401150);Innovative Research Team of Henan Polytechnic University (No.T014-3);Outstanding Youth Fund of Henan Polytechnic University (No.J2016-3)
Due to the difficulty in detecting reflection symmetry axis
a detection algorithm based on improved mean-standard deviation curve descriptor (MSCD) is proposed.Firstly
the proposed algorithm improves the MSCD so that its mirror reflection invariance can guarantee the accurate detection of the symmetrical curve pairs.Then the distance constraint and Hough transform is used to gain local symmetry axis of the image.Finally
final symmetry axis can be acquired by merging the local ones.Experimental results show that the proposed algorithm can realize the symmetric axis detection for image with both single symmetric axis and multi ones.Besides
it can locate the image symmetry axis precisely and robustly under brightness changes