Abstract

Texture is one of the important characteristics used in identifying objects or regions of interest in an image, whether the image be a photomicrograph, an aerial photograph, or a satellite image. This paper describes some easily computable textural features based on gray-tone spatial dependancies, and illustrates their application in category-identification tasks of three different kinds of image data: photomicrographs of five kinds of sandstones, 1:20 000 panchromatic aerial photographs of eight land-use categories, and Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) multispecial imagery containing seven land-use categories. We use two kinds of decision rules: one for which the decision regions are convex polyhedra (a piecewise linear decision rule), and one for which the decision regions are rectangular parallelpipeds (a min-max decision rule). In each experiment the data set was divided into two parts, a training set and a test set. Test set identification accuracy is 89 percent for the photomicrographs, 82 percent for the aerial photographic imagery, and 83 percent for the satellite imagery. These results indicate that the easily computable textural features probably have a general applicability for a wide variety of image-classification applications.

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Panchromatic filmArtificial intelligenceSet (abstract data type)Computer sciencePattern recognition (psychology)Decision ruleIdentification (biology)Test setImage (mathematics)Computer vision

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Year
1973
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article
Volume
SMC-3
Issue
6
Pages
610-621
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21910
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Robert M. Haralick, Karthikeyan Shanmugam, I. Dinstein (1973). Textural Features for Image Classification. IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics , SMC-3 (6) , 610-621. https://doi.org/10.1109/tsmc.1973.4309314

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10.1109/tsmc.1973.4309314