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This paper presents an unsupervised texture segmentation method, which uses distributions of local binary patterns and pattern contrasts for measuring the similarity of adjacent image regions during the segmentation process. Nonparametric log-likelihood test, the G statistic, is engaged as a pseudo-metric for comparing feature distributions. A region-based algorithm is developed for coarse image segmentation and a pixelwise classification scheme for improving localization of region boundaries. The performance of the method is evaluated with various types of test images. The same set of parameter values is used in all the experiments with texture mosaics in order to demonstrate the robustness of our approach.
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Ojala, T., Pietikäinen, M. (1997). Unsupervised texture segmentation using feature distributions. In: Del Bimbo, A. (eds) Image Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1310. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63507-6_216
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