Texture Analysis through a Markovian Modelling and FuzzyClassification: Application to Urban Area Extraction fromSatellite Images

  • Authors:
  • A. Lorette;X. Descombes;J. Zerubia

  • Affiliations:
  • Ariana, Joint group CNRS/INRIA/UNSA INRIA, 2004 Route Des Luciozes, BP 93 06902 Sophia Antipolis Codex France&semi/ Grant from CNES;Ariana, Joint group CNRS/INRIA/UNSA INRIA, 2004 Route Des Luciozes, BP 93 06902 Sophia Antipolis Codex France;Ariana, Joint group CNRS/INRIA/UNSA INRIA, 2004 Route Des Luciozes, BP 93 06902 Sophia Antipolis Codex France

  • Venue:
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Herein we propose a complete procedure to analyze and classify thetexture of an image. We apply this scheme to solve a specific image processingproblem: urban areas detection in satellite images. First we propose toanalyze the texture through the modelling of the luminance field with eightdifferent chain-based models. We then derived a texture parameter from thesemodels. The effect of the lattice anisotropy is corrected by a renormalizationgroup technique coming from statistical physics. This parameter, which takesinto account local conditional variances of the image, is compared to classicalmethods of texture analysis. Afterwards we develop a modified fuzzy Cmeansalgorithm that includes an entropy term. The advantage of such an algorithmis that the number of classes does not need to be known a priori. Besidesthis algorithm provides us with further information, i.e. the probabilitythat a given pixel belongs to a given cluster. Finally we introduce thisinformation in a Markovian model of segmentation. Some results on SPOT5simulated images, SPOT3 images and ERS1 radar images are presented. Theseimages are provided by the French National Space Agency (CNES) andthe European Space Agency (ESA).