Fuzzified Circular Gabor Filter for Circular and Near-Circular Object Detection

This paper presents a new algorithm for filtering and detecting circular and deformed circular objects. The resulting procedure is based on fuzzifying the parameters of a circular Gabor filter to optimize the response of the circular Gabor filter and achieve additional selectivity of the filter. Circular and deformed circular objects of interest were efficiently extracted, and considerable resistance to noise and image degradation was achieved.