Locally rotation, contrast, and scale invariant descriptors for texture analysis.

Textures within real images vary in brightness, contrast, scale and skew as imaging conditions change. To enable recognition of textures in real images, it is necessary to employ a similarity measure which is invariant to these properties. Furthermore, since textures often appear on undulating surfa...

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Main Authors: Mellor, M, Hong, B, Brady, M
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2008
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Hong, B
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description Textures within real images vary in brightness, contrast, scale and skew as imaging conditions change. To enable recognition of textures in real images, it is necessary to employ a similarity measure which is invariant to these properties. Furthermore, since textures often appear on undulating surfaces, such invariances must necessarily be local rather than global. Despite these requirements, it is only relatively recently that texture recognition algorithms with local scale and affine invariance properties have begun to be reported. Typically, they comprise detecting feature points followed by geometric normalization prior to description. We describe a method based on invariant combinations of linear filters. Unlike previous methods, we introduce a novel family of filters, which provide scale invariance, resulting in a texture description invariant to local changes in orientation, contrast and scale and robust to local skew. Significantly, the family of filters enable local scale invariants to be defined without using a scale selection principle or a large number of filters. A texture discrimination method based on the A2 similarity measure applied to histograms derived from our filter responses outperforms existing methods for retrieval and classification results for both the Brodatz textures and the UIUC database, which has been designed to require local invariance.
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spelling oxford-uuid:48d1acac-607c-4094-9e5a-88e489d4f1882022-03-26T15:28:00ZLocally rotation, contrast, and scale invariant descriptors for texture analysis.Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:48d1acac-607c-4094-9e5a-88e489d4f188EnglishSymplectic Elements at Oxford2008Mellor, MHong, BBrady, MTextures within real images vary in brightness, contrast, scale and skew as imaging conditions change. To enable recognition of textures in real images, it is necessary to employ a similarity measure which is invariant to these properties. Furthermore, since textures often appear on undulating surfaces, such invariances must necessarily be local rather than global. Despite these requirements, it is only relatively recently that texture recognition algorithms with local scale and affine invariance properties have begun to be reported. Typically, they comprise detecting feature points followed by geometric normalization prior to description. We describe a method based on invariant combinations of linear filters. Unlike previous methods, we introduce a novel family of filters, which provide scale invariance, resulting in a texture description invariant to local changes in orientation, contrast and scale and robust to local skew. Significantly, the family of filters enable local scale invariants to be defined without using a scale selection principle or a large number of filters. A texture discrimination method based on the A2 similarity measure applied to histograms derived from our filter responses outperforms existing methods for retrieval and classification results for both the Brodatz textures and the UIUC database, which has been designed to require local invariance.
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Hong, B
Brady, M
Locally rotation, contrast, and scale invariant descriptors for texture analysis.
title Locally rotation, contrast, and scale invariant descriptors for texture analysis.
title_full Locally rotation, contrast, and scale invariant descriptors for texture analysis.
title_fullStr Locally rotation, contrast, and scale invariant descriptors for texture analysis.
title_full_unstemmed Locally rotation, contrast, and scale invariant descriptors for texture analysis.
title_short Locally rotation, contrast, and scale invariant descriptors for texture analysis.
title_sort locally rotation contrast and scale invariant descriptors for texture analysis
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