A fuzzy approach to texture segmentation

The texture segmentation techniques are diversified by the existence of several approaches. In this paper, we propose fuzzy features for the segmentation of texture image. For this purpose, a membership function is constructed to represent the effect of the neighboring pixels on the current pixel in...

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Main Authors: Hanmandlu, M., Madasu, V.K., Vasikarla, S.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Anisotropic magnetoresistance
Entropy
Feature extraction
Fractals
Fuzzy logic
Gaussian processes
Image segmentation
Markov random fields
Pixel
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Summary:The texture segmentation techniques are diversified by the existence of several approaches. In this paper, we propose fuzzy features for the segmentation of texture image. For this purpose, a membership function is constructed to represent the effect of the neighboring pixels on the current pixel in a window. Using these membership function values, we find a feature by weighted average method for the current pixel. This is repeated for all pixels in the window treating each time one pixel as the current pixel. Using these fuzzy based features, we derive three descriptors such as maximum, entropy, and energy for each window. To segment the texture image, the modified mountain clustering that is unsupervised and fuzzy c-means clustering have been used. The performance of the proposed features is compared with that of fractal features.
DOI:10.1109/ITCC.2004.1286537