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Statistical Geometrical Texture Description

Statistical Geometrical Texture Description
Statistical Geometrical Texture Description
Texture plays an important role in image analysis and understanding. Its potential applications include remote sensing, quality control, and medical diagnosis etc. As a front end in a typical classification system, texture feature extraction is of key significance to the overall system performance. There have been many papers, proposing various approaches to this challenging problem. Structural approaches are based on the theory of formal languages: a texture image is regarded as generated from a set of texture primitives using a set of placement rules. These approaches work well on "deterministic" textures but most natural textures, unfortunately, are not of this type. From a statistical point of view, texture images are complicated pictorial patterns on which sets of statistics can be defined to characterise these patterns. Aside from the most popularly used Spatial Grey Level Dependence Matrix (SGLDM), there are also other statistics such as the recently proposed Statistical Feature Matrix (SFM). These statistics, however, are largely heuristic, resulting in limited discrimination ability. Fourier transform based methods usually perform well on textures showing strong periodicity. Their performance significantly deteriorates, though, when the periodicity weakens. Stochastic models such as two-dimensional ARMA, Markov random fields etc. can also be used for texture feature extraction via parameter estimation. These approaches consider textures as realisations of a random process. We have developed a novel set of texture features - Statistical Geometrical Features (SGF) - based on the statistics of geometrical properties of connected regions in a stack of binary images obtained from a texture image.
Chen, Y.Q.
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Nixon, M.S.
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Thomas, D.W.
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Chen, Y.Q.
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Nixon, M.S.
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Thomas, D.W.
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Chen, Y.Q., Nixon, M.S. and Thomas, D.W. (1994) Statistical Geometrical Texture Description

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Abstract

Texture plays an important role in image analysis and understanding. Its potential applications include remote sensing, quality control, and medical diagnosis etc. As a front end in a typical classification system, texture feature extraction is of key significance to the overall system performance. There have been many papers, proposing various approaches to this challenging problem. Structural approaches are based on the theory of formal languages: a texture image is regarded as generated from a set of texture primitives using a set of placement rules. These approaches work well on "deterministic" textures but most natural textures, unfortunately, are not of this type. From a statistical point of view, texture images are complicated pictorial patterns on which sets of statistics can be defined to characterise these patterns. Aside from the most popularly used Spatial Grey Level Dependence Matrix (SGLDM), there are also other statistics such as the recently proposed Statistical Feature Matrix (SFM). These statistics, however, are largely heuristic, resulting in limited discrimination ability. Fourier transform based methods usually perform well on textures showing strong periodicity. Their performance significantly deteriorates, though, when the periodicity weakens. Stochastic models such as two-dimensional ARMA, Markov random fields etc. can also be used for texture feature extraction via parameter estimation. These approaches consider textures as realisations of a random process. We have developed a novel set of texture features - Statistical Geometrical Features (SGF) - based on the statistics of geometrical properties of connected regions in a stack of binary images obtained from a texture image.

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Published date: 1994
Additional Information: 1994 Research Journal Address: Department of Electronics and Computer Science
Organisations: Southampton Wireless Group

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Local EPrints ID: 250091
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/250091
PURE UUID: 698aabe5-af20-4ddd-91bf-acafc2868cb5
ORCID for M.S. Nixon: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-9174-5934

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Date deposited: 04 May 1999
Last modified: 21 Feb 2024 02:32

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Author: Y.Q. Chen
Author: M.S. Nixon ORCID iD
Author: D.W. Thomas

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