Texture analysis based on maximum contrast walker

  • Authors:
  • André Ricardo Backes;Alexandre Souto Martinez;Odemir Martinez Bruno

  • Affiliations:
  • Instituto de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação (ICMC-USP), Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Trabalhador São Carlense, 400 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto (FFCLRP-USP), Universidade de São Paulo, Avenida Bandeirantes, 3900 14040-901, Ribeirão Preto, SP, Brazil and Instit ...;Instituto de Física de São Carlos (IFSC-USP), Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Trabalhador São Carlense, 400 13560-970, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Pattern Recognition Letters
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Recently, the deterministic tourist walk has emerged as a novel approach for texture analysis. This method employs a traveler visiting image pixels using a deterministic walk rule. Resulting trajectories provide clues about pixel interaction in the image that can be used for image classification and identification tasks. This paper proposes a new walk rule for the tourist which is based on contrast direction of a neighborhood. The yielded results using this approach are comparable with those from traditional texture analysis methods in the classification of a set of Brodatz textures and their rotated versions, thus confirming the potential of the method as a feasible texture analysis methodology.