16. The method of claim 3 , further comprising: performing a lighting correction on one or more of said plurality of transform coefficients prior to classifying said 2D image.
3. The method of claim 2 , wherein said obtaining includes: computing a wavelet transform of each image, wherein said wavelet transform generates a plurality of transform coefficients, and wherein each transform coefficient represents a portion of said visual information from the image that is localized in space, frequency, and orientation.