Mellin Transform - Applications

Applications

The Mellin Transform is widely used in computer science because of its scale invariance property. The magnitude of the Mellin Transform of a scaled function is identical to the magnitude of the original function. This scale invariance property is analogous to the Fourier Transform's shift invariance property. The magnitude of a Fourier transform of a time-shifted function is identical to the original function.

This property is useful in image recognition. An image of an object is easily scaled when the object is moved towards or away from the camera.