Color Texture Analysis Using Wavelet-Based Hidden Markov Model

Abstract

Wavelet Domain Hidden Markov Model (WD HMM), in particular Hidden Markov Tree (HMT), has recently been proposed and applied to gray level image analysis. In this paper, color texture analysis using WD HMM is studied. In order to combine color and texture information to one single model, we extend WD HMM by grouping the wavelet coefficients from different color planes to one vector. The grouping way is chose according to a tradeoff between computation complexity and effectiveness. Besides, we propose Multivariate Gaussian Mixture Model (MGMM) to approximate the marginal distribution of wavelet coefficient vectors and to capture the interactions of different color planes. By employing our proposed approach, we can improve the performance of WD HMM on color texture classification. The experiment shows that our proposed WD HMM provides an 85% percentage of correct classifications (PCC) on 68 color images from an Oulu Texture Database and outperforms other methods.