A Taxonomy for Texture Description and Identification
By: by A. Ravishankar Rao
Series: Springer Series in Perception Engineering; Springer series in perception engineering
Publisher: Springer US
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781461397793; 9781461397779
Subjects: Computer hardware; Computer vision; Computer simulation; Computer science; Software engineering
Description: A central issue in computer vision is the problem of signal to symbol transformation. In the case of texture, which is an important visual cue, this problem has hitherto received very little attention. This book presents a solution to the signal to symbol transformation problem for texture. The symbolic de- scription scheme consists of a novel taxonomy for textures, and is based on appropriate mathematical models for different kinds of texture. The taxonomy classifies textures into the broad classes of disordered, strongly ordered, weakly ordered and compositional. Disordered textures are described by statistical mea- sures, strongly ordered textures by the placement of primitives, and weakly ordered textures by an orientation field. Compositional textures are created from these three classes of texture by using certain rules of composition. The unifying theme of this book is to provide standardized symbolic descriptions that serve as a descriptive vocabulary for textures. The algorithms developed in the book have been applied to a wide variety of textured images arising in semiconductor wafer inspection, flow visualization and lumber processing. The taxonomy for texture can serve as a scheme for the identification and description of surface flaws and defects occurring in a wide range of practical applications.
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Table of contents: title: Contents: Introduction; title: Computing Oriented Texture Fields; title: The Analysis of Oriented Textures through Phase Portraits; title: Analyzing Strongly Ordered Textures; title: Disordered Textures; title: Compositional Textures; title: Conclusion; title: Rotation Invariance of D and q; title: Region Refinement; title: Preparation of the Manuscript; title: Bibliography; title: Index; title: Permissions.