“…The low order moments can be used to obtain the mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis of the distribution of the luminance intensity in an image [1], [2] . Moments have been applied in many types of applications such as object classification [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7], text recognition [8], pattern recognition [9], [10], content-based image retrieval [11], [12], image reconstruction [13], and recently, image quality assessment [14].…”