Outline for lecture on texture
CSE/EE 576 May 19, 1995, SLT


What is texture?

 Property of textiles
 General property of materials in terms of appearance
 Property of visual art

 Characteristic local intensity and color variations in
  image regions or scene surfaces

Structural approaches
  Texels
  Tesselations
  Grammatical descriptions

Statistical approaches
  Density of edges
  Co-occurrence values

Frequency analysis approachs
  Partitioning the Fourier spectrum
  Convolution-based approaches -- Laws' texture energy

Mixed structural/statistical approaches
  See example of this in:
  Bhagvati, C., Skolnick, M. M., and Grivas, D. A. 1994.
  Gaussian normalization of morphological size distributions
  for increasing sensitivity to texture variations and its
  application to pavement distress classification.
  Proc. CVPR '94, pp.700-703.