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Texture classification and segmentation have been studied using various approaches. The mean Grey-Level Co-occurrence Matrix, introduced by the authors, gives statistical features relatively insensitive to rotation and translation. On the other hand, texture analysis based on fractals is an approach that correlates texture coarseness and fractal dimension. By combining the two types of features, the discrimination power increases. The paper introduces the notion of effective fractal dimension which is an adapting fractal dimension to classification of texture and is calculated by elimination of a constant zone which appears in all textured images. In the case of colour images, we proposed a classification method based on minimum distance between the vectors of the effective fractal dimension of the fundamental colour components. The experimental results to classify real land textured images validate that effective fractal dimension offers a grater discrimination of classes than typical fractal distance based on complete box counting algorithm.
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Popescu, D., Dobrescu, R., Angelescu, N. (2013). Improvement of Statistical and Fractal Features for Texture Classification. In: Dumitrache, L. (eds) Advances in Intelligent Control Systems and Computer Science. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 187. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32548-9_3
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