10.1016/j.physa.2013.10.011

Bibtex

Texture descriptor combining fractal dimension and artificial crawlers

Wesley Nunes Goncalves and Bruno Brandoli Machado and Odemir Martinez Bruno

PHYSICA A-STATISTICAL MECHANICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS, 395():358-370, 2014

Texture is an important visual attribute used to describe images. There are many methods available for texture analysis. However, they do not capture the detail richness of the image surface. In this paper, we propose a new method to describe textures using the artificial crawler model. This model assumes that agents can interact with the environment and each other. Since this swarm system alone does not achieve a good discrimination, we developed a new method to increase the discriminatory power of artificial crawlers, together with the fractal dimension theory. Here, we estimated the fractal dimension by the Bouligand-Minkowski method due to its precision in quantifying structural properties of images. We validate our method on two texture datasets and the experimental results reveal that our method leads to highly discriminative textural features. The results indicate that our method can be used in different texture applications. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.