A nonlinear feature extractor for texture segmentation

Fok Hing Chi Tivive, Abdesselam Bouzerdoum

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Abstract

This article presents a feed-forward network architecture that can be used as a nonlinear feature extractor for texture segmentation. It comprises two layers of feature extraction units; each layer is arranged into several planes, called feature maps. The features extracted from the second layer are used as the final texture features. The feature maps are characterised by a set of masks (or weights), which are shared among all the units of a single feature map. Combining the nonlinear feature extractor with a classifier, we have developed a texture segmentation system that does not rely on pre-defined filters for feature extraction; the weights of the feature maps are found during a supervised learning stage. Tested on the Brodatz texture images, the proposed texture segmentation system achieves better classification accuracy than some of the most popular texture segmentation approaches.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2007 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2007 Proceedings
PagesII37-II40
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event14th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2007 - San Antonio, TX, United States
Duration: 16 Sept 200719 Sept 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP
Volume2
ISSN (Print)1522-4880

Conference

Conference14th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Antonio, TX
Period16/09/0719/09/07

Keywords

  • Image texture analysis
  • Neural network architecture
  • Nonlinear filters
  • Pattern recognition

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