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Why is the default Gabor phase offset 90 degrees?

This is using the default (CV_PI*0.5,) phase offset getGaborKernel(size, 8.0, 0.0, 16.0, 1.0);

This is using a zero phase offset getGaborKernel(size, 8.0, 0.0, 16.0, 1.0, 0.0);

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So it seems that default phase offset (90 deg) removes the symmetry of the Gabor kernel. I have seen some other references where they use the same offset so I guess its standard conversion.

Why is this the default? Is it generally more useful to have this for feature extraction?

Why is the default Gabor phase offset 90 degrees?

This is using the default (CV_PI*0.5,) phase offset getGaborKernel(size, 8.0, 0.0, 16.0, 1.0);

This is using a zero phase offset getGaborKernel(size, 8.0, 0.0, 16.0, 1.0, 0.0);

enter image description here

So it seems that default phase offset (90 deg) removes the symmetry of the Gabor kernel. I have seen some other references where they use the same offset so I guess its standard conversion.

Why is this the default? Is it generally more useful to have this for feature extraction?

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