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Texture Analysis

This document discusses texture analysis in machine vision and image processing. It defines texture as the spatial variation in pixel intensities within an image region, which can help classify materials like cotton or leather. There are three main problems in texture analysis: texture classification, which identifies uniform textured regions; texture segmentation, which finds boundaries between differently textured regions; and shape from texture, which extracts 3D shape from variations in texture across an image. Related publications on texture analysis and segmentation are also cited.

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Texture Analysis

This document discusses texture analysis in machine vision and image processing. It defines texture as the spatial variation in pixel intensities within an image region, which can help classify materials like cotton or leather. There are three main problems in texture analysis: texture classification, which identifies uniform textured regions; texture segmentation, which finds boundaries between differently textured regions; and shape from texture, which extracts 3D shape from variations in texture across an image. Related publications on texture analysis and segmentation are also cited.

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Texture Analysis

In many machine vision and image processing algorithms, simplifying assumptions


are made about the uniformity of intensities in local image regions. However, images
of real objects often do not exhibit regions of uniform intensities. For example, the
image of a wooden surface is not uniform but contains variations of intensities which
form certain repeated patterns called visual texture. The patterns can be the result of
physical surface properties such as roughness or oriented strands which often have a
tactile quality, or they could be the result of reflectance differences such as the color
on a surface.

Image texture, defined as a function of the spatial variation in pixel intensities (gray
values), is useful in a variety of applications and has been a subject of intense study
by many researchers. One immediate application of image texture is the recognition of
image regions using texture properties. For example, based on textural properties, we
can identify a variety of materials such as cotton canvas, straw matting, raffia,
herringbone weave, and pressed calf leather. Texture is the most important visual cue
in identifying these types of homogeneous regions. This is called texture
classification. The goal of texture classification then is to produce a classification map
of the input image where each uniform textured region is identified with the texture
class it belongs to.

We could also find the texture boundaries even if we could not classify these textured
surfaces. This is then the second type of problem that texture analysis research
attempts to solve -- texture segmentation. The goal of texture segmentation is to
obtain the boundary map separating the differently textured regions in an image.

Texture synthesis is often used for image compression applications. It is also


important in computer graphics where the goal is to render object surfaces which are
as realistic looking as possible.

The shape from texture problem is one instance of a general class of vision problems


known as ``shape from X.'' The goal is to extract three-dimensional surface shape
from variations in textural properties in the image. The texture features (texture
elements) are distorted due to the imaging process and the perspective projection
which provide information about surface orientation and shape.

Related Publications
1. M. Tuceryan and A. K. Jain, ``Texture Analysis,'' In The Handbook of Pattern
Recognition and Computer Vision (2nd Edition), by C. H. Chen, L. F. Pau, P.
S. P. Wang (eds.), pp. 207-248, World Scientific Publishing Co.,
1998. (Abstract) (Book Chapter)
2. M. Tuceryan, ``Moment Based Texture Segmentation.'' in Pattern Recognition
Letters, vol. 15, pp. 659-668, July 1994. (Abstract)
3. M. Tuceryan and A. K. Jain, ``Texture Segmentation Using Voronoi
Polygons,'' IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol.
PAMI-12, pp. 211-216, February, 1990. (Abstract)

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