结合特征场和标号场MRF的区域化纹理图像分割

为了实现对纹理图像的分割,需利用建模像素间相互作用关系,因此本文利用在标号场和特征场中分别建模邻域多边形和邻域像素之间的作用关系,并提出一种基于马尔科夫随机场(Markov Random Field,MRF)的区域化纹理图像分割方法。即利用Voronoi划分技术,将图像划分为若干个多边形;在标号场上利用Gibbs分布建模相邻多边形标号间的相互作用,在特征场上利用高斯分布建模多边形内邻域像素间光谱测度的相关性;结合贝叶斯定理建立分割模型;通过最大期望值(Expectation Maximization,EM)算法来估计模型参数,进而获得最优分割结果。本文分别对合成纹理图像、自然纹理图像和遥感图像进行分割实验,并对分割结果进行定性和定量评价。通过计算混淆矩阵得出Kappa值为0.97,满足了优秀分类器的标准。本文提出的算法具有很强的抗噪和描述复杂光谱测度的能力,可行性好,准确性高。

Orthogonal moment based texture segmentation

Texture segmentation is a necessary step to identify the surface or an object in an image. We present a Legendre moment based segmentation algorithm. The Legendre moments in small local windows of the image are computed first and a nonlinear transducer is used to map the moments to texture features and these features are used to construct feature vectors used as input data. Then an RBF neural network is used to perform segmentation. A k-mean algorithm is used to train the hidden layers of the RBF neural network. The training of the output layer is the supervised algorithm based on LMS. The algorithm has been successfully used to segment a number of gray level texture images. Compared with the geometric moment-based texture segmentation, we can reduce the error rates using orthogonal moments.

FAST TEXT LOCATION BASED ON DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM

The paper describes a texture-based fast text location scheme which operates directly in the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) domain. By the distinguishing texture characteristics encoded in wavelet transform domain, the text is fast detected from complex background images stored in the compressed format such as JPEG2000 without full decompress. Compared with some traditional character location methods, the proposed scheme has the advantages of low computational cost, robust to size and font of characters and high accuracy. Preliminary experimental results show that the proposed scheme is efficient and effective.

SAR Image Classification Based on Its Texture Features

SAR images not only have the characteristics of all-ay, all-eather, but also provide object information which is different from visible and infrared sensors. However, SAR images have some faults, such as more speckles and fewer bands. The authors conducted the experiments of texture statistics analysis on SAR image features in order to improve the accuracy of SAR image interpretation. It is found that the texture analysis is an effective method for improving the accuracy of the SAR image interpretation.

Texture Image Segmentation Based on Nonlinear Diffusion

A texture image segmentation based on nonlinear diffusion is presented. The scale of texture can be measured during the process of nonlinear diffusion. A smooth 5-channel vector image with edge preserved, which is composed of intensity, scale and orientation of texture image, can be achieved by coupled nonlinear diffusion. A multi-channel statistical region active contour is employed to segment this vector image. The method can be seen as a kind of unsupervised segmentation because parameters are not sensitive to different texture images. Experimental results show its high efficiency in the semiautomatic extraction of texture image.

A Method of Soil Salinization Information Extraction with SVM Classification Based on ICA and Texture Features

Salt-affected soils classification using remotely sensed images is one of the most common applications in remote sensing,and many algorithms have been developed and applied for this purpose in the literature.This study takes the Delta Oasis of Weigan and Kuqa Rivers as a study area and discusses the prediction of soil salinization from ETM +Landsat data.It reports the Support Vector Machine(SVM) classification method based on Independent Component Analysis(ICA) and Texture features.Meanwhile,the letter introduces the fundamental theory of SVM algorithm and ICA,and then incorporates ICA and texture features.The classification result is compared with ICA-SVM classification,single data source SVM classification,maximum likelihood classification(MLC) and neural network classification qualitatively and quantitatively.The result shows that this method can effectively solve the problem of low accuracy and fracture classification result in single data source classification.It has high spread ability toward higher array input.The overall accuracy is 98.64%,which increases by10.2% compared with maximum likelihood classification,even increases by 12.94% compared with neural net classification,and thus acquires good effectiveness.Therefore,the classification method based on SVM and incorporating the ICA and texture features can be adapted to RS image classification and monitoring of soil salinization.

Pilling Image Acquisition method for Complicated Texture Fabric

In order to solve the problem of complicated fabric texture interference on the pilling segmentation during the objective evaluation of fabric pilling, a new method of pilling image acquisition was proposed. Firstly, multi-direction lights were projected on the pilled fabric surface and its pilling images were captured, which mixed with invariant fabric background texture and pilling profile information modulated by the variant light projections. The captured fabric pilling images were analyzed by independent component analysis method. Using the spectrum feature analysis method, the independent components belonging to the complicated fabric background texture were separated and the pilling images are reconstructed with the left components. The experimental results showed that this method can effectively separate the pilling image from complicated fabric texture, which provides one possibility for colored fabric pilling objective evaluation.

A multiphase texture segmentation method based on local intensity distribution and Potts model

Because texture images cannot be directly processed by the gray level information of individual pixel,we propose a new texture descriptor which reflects the intensity distribution of the patch centered at each pixel.Then the general multiphase image segmentation model of Potts model is extended for texture segmentation by adding the region information of the texture descriptor.A fast numerical scheme based on the split Bregman method is designed to speed up the computational process.The algorithm is efficient,and both the texture descriptor and the characteristic functions can be implemented easily.Experiments using synthetic texture images,real natural scene images and synthetic aperture radar images are presented to give qualitative comparisons between our method and other state-of-the-art techniques.The results show that our method can accurately segment object regions and is competitive compared with other methods especially in segmenting natural images.

Comparative study on the performance of textural image features for active contour segmentation

We present a computerized method for the semi-automatic detection of contours in ultrasound images. The novelty of our study is the introduction of a fast and efficient image function relating to parametric active contour models. This new function is a combination of the gray-level information and first-order statistical features, called standard deviation parameters. In a comprehensive study, the developed algorithm and the efficiency of segmentation were first tested for synthetic images. Tests were also performed on breast and liver ultrasound images. The proposed method was compared with the watershed approach to show its efficiency. The performance of the segmentation was estimated using the area error rate. Using the standard devia- tion textural feature and a 5x5 kernel, our curve evolution was able to produce results close to the minimal area error rate （namely 8.88% for breast images and 10.82% for liver images）. The image resolution was evaluated using the con- trast-to-gradient method. The experiments showed promising segmentation results.