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This paper proposes to use three-dimensional information derived from the graph of an image function for texture description. The graph of an image function is a rumpled surface appearing like a landscape. To characterize the texture through this landscape, six novel texture feature curves based on the statistics of the geometrical and topological properties of the solids shaped by the graph and a variable horizontal plane are used. The proposed statistical landscape features have been shown by systematic experiments to offer very low error rates on a large subset of the Brodatz texture album having excluded some nonhomogeneous images, the entire Brodatz texture set, as well as the VisTex texture collection.
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The research work presented in this paper is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China, Grant No. 60275010, and Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality, Grant No. 04JC14014.
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Xu, C.L., Chen, Y.Q. Classifying image texture with statistical landscape features. Pattern Anal Applic 8, 321–331 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-005-0014-6
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