Evaluation of the Texture Analysis Using Spectral Correlation Function

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Amirani, Mehdi Chehel | Shirazi, Ali Asghar Beheshti

Affiliations: Electrical Engineering Department, Iran University of Science and Technology Tehran, Iran. E-mail: amirani@ee.iust.ac.ir; abeheshti@iust.ac.ir

Abstract: In this paper a new feature extraction technique for texture analysis is evaluated. This method is based on spectral correlation function (SCF) that provides a second-order statistical description in the frequency domain of signals. Two one dimensional signals are obtained from each image by ordering of pixels row by row and column by column. Then the SCF of each signal is calculated by a computational efficient algorithm, namely, the FFT accumulation method (FAM). Features are energy and standard deviation of spectral correlation functions at different regions of bifrequency planes. This scheme shows high performance in the retrieval and classification of Brodatz texture images. Experimental results indicate that the proposedmethod improves retrieval accuracy and correct classification rate in comparing with other approaches. Furthermore the evaluation of the hidden layer output at the classifier with different numbers of neurons indicates that the extracted features from SCF are more separable potentially in comparing with traditional discrete wavelet transform approaches.

Keywords: Texture analysis, Texture classification, Texture retrieval, Spectral correlation function, Feature extraction

DOI: 10.3233/FI-2009-149

Journal: Fundamenta Informaticae, vol. 95, no. 2-3, pp. 245-262, 2009