Texture Segmentation using Fractal Signature

Abstract

Fractal dimension is a powerful tool to characterize roughness in an image. This paper presents fractal geometry based approach for texture segmentation. Five fractal dimension features are calculated from the original image, the high-gray image, the low-gray level image, the horizontally and vertically smoothed image. Supervised texture segmentation is achieved using minimum distance and fuzzy classifier for different window sizes. The fuzzy classifier with smaller window size gives better performance.

Indexing terms:

• Texture
• Fractal
• Feature extraction
• Fuzzy segmentation

Additional information

Notes on contributors

M H Kolekar

Maheshkumar H Kolekar, born in 1972 at Satara (Maharashtra), Shri Kolekar received his first degree in Electronics Engineering from Shivaji University, Kolhapur and acquired his master's degree from SGGS College of Engineering and Technology, Nanded. His Masters dissertation deals with Image Segmentation. At present working at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Technological University, Lonere as a lecturer in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, he is a life member of various organizations such as ISTE, IETE and CSI and has authored several papers, which are published in National level journals and conferences. His interests include Digital Image Processing, Digital Signal Processing, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Logic and Neural Networks.

S N Talbar

Sanjay N Talbar, after graduating in Electronics Engineering, Dr Talbar received his Masters degree in Electronics from SGGS College of Engineering and Technology, Nanded and PhD degree from Swami Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded. Presently working as Assistant Professor in Eectronics and Computer Science and Engineering Department at SGGS College of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, he has published more than 18 research papers at National/International level. His PhD thesis deals with texture analysis. The subjects of his research are Digital Image Processing, Computer Vision CAD and Pattern Recognition. He has authored the book titled “Electronic Circuit Design”.

T R Sontakke

Trimbak S Sontakke graduated in Electrical Engineering from Government College of Engineering, Aurangabad, and completed MTech from VRCE Nagpur. A PhD from IIT Bombay, he worked at TTTI, Bhopal for a period of 10 years and visited UK to study Technical Education System. Currently working as Professor and Head of Electronics and Computer Science and Engineering Department at SGGS College of Engineering and Technology, Nanded, he has been awarded two Gold medals by the Institute of Engineers for his research papers. The areas of his special interest and Electronic Design Technology, CAD for VLSI Design, Computer Vision and Image Processing. He has authored books titled “BASIC Programming for IBM PCs”, “Computer Program Design: Flowcharts and Algorithms”, “The 8085 Basics Programming and Interfacing” and several other books.