Digital image processing (2nd ed.)
Digital image processing (2nd ed.)
Wrappers for feature subset selection
Artificial Intelligence - Special issue on relevance
Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)
Pattern Classification (2nd Edition)
Design and Analysis of Experiments
Design and Analysis of Experiments
An empirical comparison of nine pattern classifiers
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B: Cybernetics
Performance analysis of colour descriptors for parquet sorting
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
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This paper presents a novel approach to the question of surface grading, the soft color texture descriptors method. This method is extracted from an extensive evaluation process of several factors based on the use of two well established statistical tools: experimental design and logistic regression. The utility of different combinations of factors is evaluated in regard to the problem of automatic classification of materials such as ceramic tiles that need to be grouped according to homogeneous visual appearance, that is, the surface grading application. The set of factors includes the number of neighbors in the k-NN classifier (several values of k parameter), color space representation schemes (CIE Lab, CIE Luv, RGB, and grayscale), and color texture features (mean, standard deviation, 2nd-5th histogram moments). A factorial experimental design is performed testing all combinations of the above factors on a large image database of ceramic tiles. Accuracy estimates are computed using logistic regression to determine the best combinations of factors. From the point of view of machine learning the overall process conforms a wrapper approach able to select significant design choices (k parameter in k-NN classifier and color space) and carry out a feature selection within the set of color texture features at the same time. Experiments were repeated with alternate color texture schemes from the literature: color histograms and centile-LBP. Comparisons of methods are presented describing both accuracy estimates and runtimes.