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A TV Flow Based Local Scale Measure for Texture Discrimination

  • Thomas Brox
  • Joachim Weickert
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3022)

Abstract

We introduce a technique for measuring local scale, based on a special property of the so-called total variational (TV) flow. For TV flow, pixels change their value with a speed that is inversely proportional to the size of the region they belong to. Exploiting this property directly leads to a region based measure for scale that is well-suited for texture discrimination. Together with the image intensity and texture features computed from the second moment matrix, which measures the orientation of a texture, a sparse feature space of dimension 5 is obtained that covers the most important descriptors of a texture: magnitude, orientation, and scale. A demonstration of the performance of these features is given in the scope of texture segmentation.

Keywords

Texture Feature Scale Measure Feature Channel Texture Segmentation Moment Matrix 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Thomas Brox
    • 1
  • Joachim Weickert
    • 1
  1. 1.Mathematical Image Analysis Group, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer ScienceSaarland UniversitySaarbrückenGermany

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