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A multi-channel filtering approach to texture segmentation
F. Farrokhnia,Anil K. Jain +1 more
- pp 364-370
TLDR
An integrated segmentation technique that combines the strengths of the previous two techniques while eliminating their weaknesses is proposed and is truly unsupervised, since it eliminates the need for knowing the exact number of texture categories in the image.Abstract:
Multichannel filtering techniques are presented for obtaining both region- and edge-based segmentations of textured images. The channels are represented by a bank of even-symmetric Gabor filters that nearly uniformly covers the spatial-frequency domain. Feature images are obtained by subjecting each (selected) filtered image to a nonlinear transformation and computing a measure of energy around each pixel. Region-based segmentations are obtained by using a square-error clustering algorithm. Edge-based segmentations are obtained by applying an edge detector to each feature image and combining their magnitude responses. An integrated segmentation technique that combines the strengths of the previous two techniques while eliminating their weaknesses is proposed. The integrated approach is truly unsupervised, since it eliminates the need for knowing the exact number of texture categories in the image. >read more
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