基于子波变换的纹理图像分类

本文用子波变换的方法描述了纹理图像多尺度、多方向的特性,提出了适合于纹理图像分类的新的子波特征。通过对其稳定性和视觉特性的详细分析,指出此特征优于传统的能量特征。文章最后结合九类自然纹理图像,分别基于标准子波特征、子波包特征用BP神经网络进行了分类识别。实验结果表明,在无噪声情况下,对自然纹理图像可无误差分类;在有噪声情况下,正确分类识别率高,表现出强的稳定性。     

基于纹理特征与BP神经网络的运动车辆识别

在Gabor小波滤波器组与图像卷积值作为特征向量达到很高识别率的基础上,提出了一种特征值加权的Gabor小波纹理特征的提取方法.首先Gabor小波函数与纹理图像做卷积,然后加权处理尺度各不相同和方向各不相同的的卷积值,最后将均值和方差看作它们的特征向量,该方法使特征维数有所降低,并利用BP神经网络进行训练和仿真,实现运动车辆纹理图像的自动分类,达到运动图像的识别.实验结果表明此算法有效降低了图像的识别错误,增强了稳健性,对质量差的图像能够有效识别.     

Multiscale image segmentation using wavelet-domain hidden Markovmodels

We introduce a new image texture segmentation algorithm, HMTseg, based on wavelets and the hidden Markov tree (HMT) model. The HMT is a tree-structured probabilistic graph that captures the statistical properties of the coefficients of the wavelet transform. Since the HMT is particularly well suited to images containing singularities (edges and ridges), it provides a good classifier for distinguishing between textures. Utilizing the inherent tree structure of the wavelet HMT and its fast training and likelihood computation algorithms, we perform texture classification at a range of different scales. We then fuse these multiscale classifications using a Bayesian probabilistic graph to obtain reliable final segmentations. Since HMTseg works on the wavelet transform of the image, it can directly segment wavelet-compressed images without the need for decompression into the space domain. We demonstrate the performance of HMTseg with synthetic, aerial photo, and document image segmentations.     

基于时间—顶点谱图小波变换的动态纹理分类方法

动态纹理在空间和时间上表现出“外观”和“运动”属性,为了有效结合这两种属性进行动态纹理分析,本文提出一种基于时间—顶点谱图小波变换与边缘分布协方差模型的动态纹理分类方法。该方法将动态纹理看成时间—顶点图信号,利用时间—顶点谱图Meyer小波变换对动态纹理进行多尺度分解,再对每个子带应用边缘分布协方差模型,由此得到带内相关性的特征协方差矩阵作为动态纹理特征进行分类。由于时间—顶点图信号的表示可以有效描述动态纹理像素间的空间关系及其沿时间的变化,同时谱图小波变换继承了图表示和小波变换的优势,因此利用时间—顶点谱图小波分解与边缘分布协方差模型,可得到有效的动态纹理特征。在标准动态纹理数据集上的分类实验结果表明,本文方法具有良好的分类性能。      

Texture analysis and classification with linear regression model based on wavelet transform.

The wavelet transform as an important multiresolution analysis tool has already been commonly applied to texture analysis and classification. Nevertheless, it ignores the structural information while capturing the spectral information of the texture image at different scales. In this paper, we propose a texture analysis and classification approach with the linear regression model based on the wavelet transform. This method is motivated by the observation that there exists a distinctive correlation between the sample images, belonging to the same kind of texture, at different frequency regions obtained by 2-D wavelet packet transform. Experimentally, it was observed that this correlation varies from texture to texture. The linear regression model is employed to analyze this correlation and extract texture features that characterize the samples. Therefore, our method considers not only the frequency regions but also the correlation between these regions. In contrast, the pyramid-structured wavelet transform (PSWT) and the tree-structured wavelet transform (TSWT) do not consider the correlation between different frequency regions. Experiments show that our method significantly improves the texture classification rate in comparison with the multiresolution methods, including PSWT, TSWT, the Gabor transform, and some recently proposed methods derived from these.     

基于非负稀疏表示的SAR图像目标识别方法

针对合成孔径雷达(SAR)图像目标识别中存在物体遮挡的情况,该文提出一种基于非负稀疏表示的分类方法。通过分析L0范数和L1范数最小化在求解非负稀疏表示问题上的区别,证明在一定条件下,L1范数最小化方法除了保持解的稀疏性还能得到与输入信号更加相似的原子集合,因此也更加适用于分类问题中。在运动和静止目标获取与识别(MSTAR)数据集上的识别实验结果表明,采用L1范数的非负稀疏表示分类方法能达到较好的识别性能,并且相对传统方法对存在遮挡情况下的识别问题更稳健。     

Wavelet-based level set evolution for classification of textured images

We present a supervised classification model based on a variational approach. This model is specifically devoted to textured images. We want to get a partition of an image, composed of texture regions separated by regular interfaces. Each kind of texture defines a class. We use a wavelet packet transform to analyze the textures, characterized by their energy distribution in each sub-band. In order to have an image segmentation according to the classes, we model the regions and their interfaces by level set functions. We define a functional on these level sets whose minimizers define the optimal classification according to texture. A system of coupled PDEs is deduced from the functional. By solving this system, each region evolves according to its wavelet coefficients and interacts with the neighbor regions in order to obtain a partition with regular contours. Experiments are shown on synthetic and real images.     

应用于水下生物识别的联合范数主成分分析算法北大核心CSCD

针对F范数对离群数据较为敏感,而L1范数能降低离群数据的影响,但无法有效控制重构误差的问题,本文将L1范数与F范数同时作为目标函数的距离度量方式,提出了二维主成分分析(two-dimensional principle component analysis,2DPCA)联合算法2DPCA-F-L1,并给出了其非贪婪求解方法。该算法确保了对图像的分类能力,同时也降低了图像重构时的平均重构误差。本文将提出的2DPCA-F-L1算法在应用于水下生物图像识别时,可以抑制水下光学影像存在的噪声干扰。实验证明,该算法能够精确地识别水下生物的种类,并且在图像重构时相较于其他主成分分析(principle component analysis,PCA)算法具有更优的鲁棒性。     

Fractal-based classification of natural textures

Texture classification is an important first step in image segmentation and image recognition. The classification algorithm must be able to overcome distortions, such as scale, aspect and rotation changes in the input texture. In this paper, a new fractal model for texture classification is presented. The model is based on fractional Brownian motion (FBM). It is also shown that this model is invariant to changes in incident light; empirical results are also given. The isotropic nature of Brownian motion is particularly useful for outdoor applications, where the viewing direction may change. Classification results of this model are presented; comparisons with other texture measurement models indicate that the incremental FBM (IFBM) model has better performance for the samples tested     

Wavelet image extension for analysis and classification ofinfarcted myocardial tissue

Some computer applications for tissue characterization in medicine and biology, such as analysis of the myocardium or cancer recognition, operate with tissue samples taken from very small areas of interest. In order to perform texture characterization in such an application, only a few texture operators can be employed: the operators should be insensitive to noise and image distortion and yet be reliable in order to estimate texture quality from the small number of image points available. In order to describe the quality of infarcted myocardial tissue, the authors propose a new wavelet-based approach for analysis and classification of texture samples with small dimensions. The main idea of this method is to decompose the given image with a filter bank derived from an orthonormal wavelet basis and to form an image approximation with higher resolution. Texture energy measures calculated at each output of the filter bank as well as energies of synthesized images are used as texture features in a classification procedure. The authors propose an unsupervised classification technique based on a modified statistical t-test. The method is tested with clinical data, and the classification results obtained are very promising. The performance of the new method is compared with the performance of several other transform-based methods. The new algorithm has advantages in classification of small and noisy input samples, and it represents a step toward structural analysis of weak textures     

应用Gabor小波和支持向量机的纹理分类

针对现有纹理分类算法的局限性,提出了一种基于Gabor小波和支持向量机的纹理分类算法.首先提取纹理Gabor分解后各子带的均值和方差作为特征向量,进而利用支持向量机算法实现分类.实验结果表明,与传统的分类方法相比,Gabor小波和支持向量机相结合能有效地提高分类正确率.     

Multiscale texture classification using reduced quaternion wavelet transform

This article proposes a study of the reduced quaternion wavelet transform (RQWT) which has one shift-invariant magnitude and three angle phases at each scale from digital image analysis application. A new multiscale texture classifier which uses features extracted from the sub-bands of the RQWT decomposition is proposed in the transform domain. The proposed method can achieve a high texture classification rate. The experimental results can demonstrate the robustness of the proposed method and achieve a higher texture classification accuracy rate than a famous wavelet transform based classifier.     

A study of relative phase in complex wavelet domain: Property,statistics and applications in texture image retrieval and segmentation

In this paper, we develop a new approach which exploits the probabilistic properties from the phase information of 2-D complex wavelet coefficients for image modeling. Instead of directly using phases of complex wavelet coefficients, we demonstrate why relative phases should be used. The definition, properties and statistics of relative phases of complex coefficients are studied in detail. We proposed von Mises and wrapped Cauchy for the probability density function (pdf) of relative phases in the complex wavelet domain. The maximum-likelihood method is used to estimate two parameters of von Mises and wrapped Cauchy. We demonstrate that the von Mises and wrapped Cauchy fit well with real data obtained from various real images including texture images as well as standard images. The von Mises and wrapped Cauchy models are compared, and the simulation results show that the wrapped Cauchy fits well with the peaky and heavy-tailed pdf of relative phases and the von Mises fits well with the pdf which is in Gaussian shape. For most of the test images, the wrapped Cauchy model is more accurate than the von Mises model, when images are decomposed by different complex wavelet transforms including dual-tree complex wavelet (DTCWT), pyramidal dual-tree directional filter bank (PDTDFB) and uniform discrete curvelet transform (UDCT). Moreover, the relative phase is applied to obtain new features for texture image retrieval and segmentation applications. Instead of using only real or magnitude coefficients, the new approach uses a feature in which phase information is incorporated, yielding a higher accuracy in texture image retrieval as well as in segmentation. The relative phase information which is complementary to the magnitude is a promising approach in image processing.     

基于Gabor小波特征的磨粒图像识别新方法

文章给出了一种基于Gabor小波纹理特征的磨粒图像识别新方法,主要是利用Gabor小波设计了一种多通道小波滤波器,对磨粒图像直接进行小波变换,用Gabor小波变换系数的模的平均值和其标准方差来表示抽取的图像特征。把获得的小波特征归一化后输入到改进的BP神经网络分类器进行分类识别。最后,对磨粒图像进行了一系列的仿真实验,结果表明,识别正确率在91%以上,并且识别速度很快。     

Low-illumination image denoising method for wide-area search of nighttime sea surface

In order to suppress complex mixing noise in low-illumination images for wide-area search of nighttime sea surface, a model based on total variation (TV) and split Bregman is proposed in this paper. A fidelity term based on L1 norm and a fidelity term based on L2 norm are designed considering the difference between various noise types, and the regularization mixed first-order TV and second-order TV are designed to balance the influence of details information such as texture and edge for sea surface image. The final detection result is obtained by using the high-frequency component solved from L1 norm and the low-frequency component solved from L2 norm through wavelet transform. The experimental results show that the proposed denoising model has perfect denoising performance for artificially degraded and low-illumination images, and the result of image quality assessment index for the denoising image is superior to that of the contrastive models.     

小波域多角度轮廓模板变分模型的单幅图像超分辨率重建

近年来图像超分辨率重建技术因其可以提高图像的识别精度和识别能力而受到重视,其中一个难点问题是如何保证图像边缘纹理区域的重建质量.本文提出一种基于小波域的单幅图像超分辨率重建方法,首先对输入图像进行非下采样小波变换,根据小波变换的多方向性提出三类多角度模板,并采用TV模型估计各子带轮廓,确定其所属的最优方向,然后利用多角度模板来对各个子带进行双三次B样条插值,最后进行非下采样小波反变换.该方法使重建后图像的边缘、纹理信息更加精细,克服了诸如双线性插值法与双三次插值法等传统插值重建所产生的边缘模糊与边缘锯齿化,以及纹理区域失真等不足,在一定程度上提高了重建图像的质量.该方法可用于图像监控、遥感影像分析和医学图像处理等领域.大量的仿真实验验证了所提出方法的有效性.     

A fast and effective model for wavelet subband histograms and its application in texture image retrieval.

This paper presents a novel, effective, and efficient characterization of wavelet subbands by bit-plane extractions. Each bit plane is associated with a probability that represents the frequency of 1-bit occurrence, and the concatenation of all the bit-plane probabilities forms our new image signature. Such a signature can be extracted directly from the code-block code-stream, rather than from the de-quantized wavelet coefficients, making our method particularly adaptable for image retrieval in the compression domain such as JPEG2000 format images. Our signatures have smaller storage requirement and lower computational complexity, and yet, experimental results on texture image retrieval show that our proposed signatures are much more cost effective to current state-of-the-art methods including the generalized Gaussian density signatures and histogram signatures.     

Rotation-invariant texture classification using a two-stage waveletpacket feature approach

A novel two-stage wavelet packet feature approach for classification of rotated textured images is discussed. In the first stage, a set of sorted and dominant wavelet packet features is extracted from a texture image and a Mahalanobis distance classifier is employed to output N best classes. In the second stage, another set of wavelet packet features is extracted from the polarised form of the sample texture image and the most dominant wavelet packet features are selected and passed to the radial basis function (RBF) classifier with the N best classes to output the final matched class. Experimental results, based on a large sample data set of twenty distinct natural textures selected from the Brodatz album with different orientations, show that the proposed method outperforms the similar wavelet methods and the other rotation invariant texture classification schemes, and an overall accuracy rate of 91.4% was achieved