A Novel Bio-Inspired Texture Descriptor based on Biodiversity and Taxonomic Measures

Texture can be defined as the change of image intensity that forms repetitive patterns, resulting from physical properties of the object's roughness or differences in a reflection on the surface. Considering that texture forms a complex system of patterns in a non-deterministic way, biodiversit...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-10
Main Authors: Steve Tsham Mpinda Ataky, Koerich, Alessandro Lameiras
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Biodiversity
Complex systems
Datasets
Permutations
Physical properties
Surface layers
Taxonomy
Texture
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Summary:Texture can be defined as the change of image intensity that forms repetitive patterns, resulting from physical properties of the object's roughness or differences in a reflection on the surface. Considering that texture forms a complex system of patterns in a non-deterministic way, biodiversity concepts can help texture characterization in images. This paper proposes a novel approach capable of quantifying such a complex system of diverse patterns through species diversity and richness and taxonomic distinctiveness. The proposed approach considers each image channel as a species ecosystem and computes species diversity and richness measures as well as taxonomic measures to describe the texture. The proposed approach takes advantage of ecological patterns' invariance characteristics to build a permutation, rotation, and translation invariant descriptor. Experimental results on three datasets of natural texture images and two datasets of histopathological images have shown that the proposed texture descriptor has advantages over several texture descriptors and deep methods.
ISSN:2331-8422