MODELS OF IMAGES WITH RADIAL-CIRCULAR STRUCTURE

Abstract. The overwhelming majority of known image models are varieties of random fields defined on rectangular two-dimensional grids or grids of higher dimension, for example. In some practical situations, the images have an annular, radial or radial-circular structure. For example, images of the facies (thin film) of dried biological fluid, eyes, cut of a tree trunk or a fruit, blood vessel, erythrocyte, blast pattern, end face detail, etc. In addition, radar and other images are physically obtained in polar or spherical coordinates. These features of images require their consideration in their mathematical models. In this paper, an autoregressive models of homogeneous and inhomogeneous random fields defined on a circle or oval are considered as representations of images with radial or radial-circular structure.