Polychromatic pattern recognition based on color component chaos encoding

In order to overcome the disadvantages which the single-channel system and the multichannel system suffer from some special cases, such as, when there exists a linear relationship between the corresponding color components of the target image and the reference image, a novel method for color pattern recognition is proposed based on color component chaos encoding. In this approach, the color components are first encoded into chaos images and then the encoded images serve as the input images of the single-channel (or multichannel) system. As a result, the color difference resulting from the linear relationship between the corresponding color components of the target image and the reference image can be recognized. Computer simulations prove that this method is valid.