Irregular colour pattern recognition using the Hough transform

This paper presents an application of the Hough Transform to the tasks of learning and identifying irregular patterns in a computer vision system. The method presented is based on the Hough Transform with a parameter space defined by translation, rotation and scaling operations. A fundamental element of this method is the generalisation of the Hough Transform for grey-level and colour images. The technique may be used in a robotic system, identification system or for image analysis.