Varifold Moment Invariants for Sustainable and Explainable Contour Feature Extraction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.07333v1
• Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:48:04 GMT
• Title: Varifold Moment Invariants for Sustainable and Explainable Contour Feature Extraction
• Abstract summary: We introduce Varifold Moments Invariants (VMI) as a unifying framework for many previously introduced Moment Invariants.<n>By coupling our VMI feature extraction with the light feature classifiers Random Forest or Multi-Layer-Perceptron, we outperform state-of-the-art approaches based on contours.
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• Abstract: We introduce Varifold Moments Invariants (VMI) as a unifying framework for many previously introduced Moment Invariants. These invariants are deeply related to other contour features that are invariant under translations and rotations, like Extended Gaussian Image, Elliptic Fourier Descriptors or Shape Distributions. The advantage of the varifold approach to moments consists in being able to combine the geometry of the region, its boundary, and the family of lines tangent to it, in order to create a substantial number of invariant features with high discriminating power and clear geometric meaning. By coupling our VMI feature extraction with the light feature classifiers Random Forest or Multi-Layer-Perceptron, we outperform state-of-the-art approaches based on contours, while decreasing drastically the computational cost to the point of allowing our algorithm to run on light devices. We tested our approach on classification tasks on a large number of widely-used datasets of various types (leaves, objects, cells) and achieved high accuracy with a low number of geometrically interpretable features.

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