Texture Segmentation Using Texture Spectrum method

combined with Kullback-Leibler distance

G.Madasamy Raja,
Lecturer, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
Vivekanandha Institute of Engineerign and Technology for Women,
anushpriya2004@yahoo.com
B.Sasikumar,
Lecturer, Department of Electrical and Electronical Engineering,
Vivekanandha Institute of Engineerign and Technology for Women,
balusasi_skg@rediffmail.com
N.G.Malathy,
Lecturer, Department of Master of Computer Application,
Vivekanandha Institute of Information and Management Studies,
Tiruchengode, Namakkal Dist.
anushpriya2005@yahoo.com

ABSTRACT
Image Segmentation is one of the most challenging problems in image processing.
The result of image segmentation is a set of regions that collectively cover the entire
image, Each of the pixels in a region are similar with respect to some characteristic or
computed property, such as color, intensity, or texture.
Texture segmentation is to segment an image into regions according to the
textures of the regions. Texture in images is an important cue for the purpose of
segmentation and has been under investigation for over three decades. Among the
statistical texture measures, none has been studied in greater detail than the second-order
statistics based gray level co-occurrence matrix method (GLCM) proposed by Haralick et
al. Based on the concept of texture unit, a new statistical approach termed as TEXTURE
SPECTRUM (TS), to texture analysis has been proposed by DONG_CHEN HE and LI
WANG.
Several approaches have been proposed using texture measures for image
segmentation. One of the important issues here is how well these methods work on
differentiating various textures that are available in a single image. This paper analyses
the strengths and weaknesses of the well known method TEXTURE SPECTRUM (TS)
for texture segmentation by combining this with the Kullback-Leibler distance.
MATLAB has been used for the implementation purpose.