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In the context of texture analysis and classification, the classification of regular textures into 17 distinctive wallpaper patterns represents a significant advance. This field is particularly relevant in areas such as art and decoration. This research uses advanced computer vision techniques to automate the classification process, using a compiled dataset of 1,700 images divided into the 17 classes. To address the challenge, two innovative approaches designed to exploit the texture representation of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are proposed. These approaches are based on transfer learning. The first approach features a shallow CNN with four convolutional layers with the aim to capture texture patterns from middle layers. The second strategy is a hybrid approach that combines traditional texture descriptors (GLCM, LBP, and Gabor filters) with deep features extracted from the ninth layer of the VGG19 model. These methodologies have demonstrated considerable success, achieving accuracies of 78% and 80%, respectively.

Many applications in image analysis require the accurate classification of complex patterns including both color and texture, e.g., in content image retrieval, biometrics, and the inspection of fabrics, wood, steel, ceramics, and fruits, among others. A new method for pattern classification using both color and texture information is proposed in this paper. The proposed method includes the following steps: division of each image into global and local samples, texture and color feature extraction from samples using a Haralick statistics and binary quaternion-moment-preserving method, a classification stage using support vector machine, and a final stage of post-processing employing a bagging ensemble. One of the main contributions of this method is the image partition, allowing image representation into global and local features. This partition captures most of the information present in the image for colored texture classification allowing improved results. The proposed method was tested on four databases extensively used in color–texture classification: the Brodatz, VisTex, Outex, and KTH-TIPS2b databases, yielding correct classification rates of 97.63%, 97.13%, 90.78%, and 92.90%, respectively. The use of the post-processing stage improved those results to 99.88%, 100%, 98.97%, and 95.75%, respectively. We compared our results to the best previously published results on the same databases finding significant improvements in all cases.

Texture identification and classification under varying scale, rotation and illumination conditions is a challenging task in pattern recognition and grey level difference statistics have been extensively used for this purpose. This study presents a new set of features for scale-, rotation- and illumination-invariant texture classification derived from the correlated distributions of local and global grey level differences of intensities in the texture image. The authors analyse the terms in the correlation formula for determining the difference-based feature set that is invariant and unique for a texture class. A comprehensive evaluation is performed on a huge database of digitally created texture samples of varying scale, orientation and brightness. The one-nearest neighbour classifier is used in the authors’ experiments and the results indicate high classification accuracy for the proposed feature vector under varying scale, rotation and brightness conditions. The proposed method is compared with the highly efficient rotation- and illumination-invariant local binary pattern (LBP) and LBP variance techniques and the scale- and rotation-invariant MRS4 technique and is found superior in performance with an additional advantage of reduced feature dimension.

Texture is a fundamental characteristic of many types of images, and texture representation is one of the essential and challenging problems in computer vision and pattern recognition which has attracted extensive research attention over several decades. Since 2000, texture representations based on Bag of Words and on Convolutional Neural Networks have been extensively studied with impressive performance. Given this period of remarkable evolution, this paper aims to present a comprehensive survey of advances in texture representation over the last two decades. More than 250 major publications are cited in this survey covering different aspects of the research, including benchmark datasets and state of the art results. In retrospect of what has been achieved so far, the survey discusses open challenges and directions for future research.

Texture classification plays a vital role in the emerging research field of image classification. This paper approaches the texture classification problem using significant features extracted from pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) like Alexnet, VGG16, Resnet18, Googlenet, MobilenetV2, and Darknet19. These features are classified by machine learning classifiers such as Support Vector Machine (SVM), Ensemble, K Nearest Neighbour (KNN), Naïve Bayes (NB), Decision Tree (DT), and Discriminant Analysis (DA). The performance of the work is evaluated with the texture databases namely KTH-TIPS, FMD, UMD-HR, and DTD. Among these CNN features derived from VGG16 classify by SVM provides better classification accuracy rather than using VGG16 with a softmax classifier.

Our world consists not only of objects and scenes but also of materials of various kinds. Being able to recognize the materials that surround us (e.g., plastic, glass, concrete) is important for humans as well as for computer vision systems. Unfortunately, materials have received little attention in the visual recognition literature, and very few computer vision systems have been designed specifically to recognize materials. In this paper, we present a system for recognizing material categories from single images. We propose a set of low and mid-level image features that are based on studies of human material recognition, and we combine these features using an SVM classifier. Our system outperforms a state-of-the-art system (Varma and Zisserman, TPAMI 31(11):2032–2047, 2009 ) on a challenging database of real-world material categories (Sharan et al., J Vis 9(8):784–784a, 2009 ). When the performance of our system is compared directly to that of human observers, humans outperform our system quite easily. However, when we account for the local nature of our image features and the surface properties they measure (e.g., color, texture, local shape), our system rivals human performance. We suggest that future progress in material recognition will come from: (1) a deeper understanding of the role of non-local surface properties (e.g., extended highlights, object identity); and (2) efforts to model such non-local surface properties in images.

As one of fundamental texture classification methods, LBP-based descriptors have attracted considerable attention due to the efficiency, simplicity, and high performance. However, most of binary pattern methods cannot effectively capture the texture information with scale changes. Inspired by this, this paper proposes a multi-scale threshold integration encoding strategy for texture classification. The essence of this strategy is to introduce the multi-scale local texture information in the view of thresholding. Based on this, we propose the local multi-scale center pattern, local multi-scale sign pattern, and local multi-scale magnitude pattern to extract and describe the multi-scale local texture information. Then, the three sub-patterns are jointly combined to generate the final descriptor for texture classification tasks. The experimental results on three popular texture databases significantly demonstrate that the proposed texture descriptor is very discriminative and powerful for visual texture classification tasks.

Classifying texture images relies heavily on the quality of the extracted features. However, producing a reliable set of features is a difficult task that often requires human intervention to select a set of prominent primitives. The process becomes more difficult when it comes to fuse low-level descriptors because of data redundancy and high dimensionality. To overcome these challenges, several approaches use machine learning to automate primitive detection and feature extraction while combining low-level descriptors. Nevertheless, most of these approaches performed the two processes separately while ignoring the correlation between them. In this paper, we propose a genetic programming (GP)-based method that combines the two well-known features of histograms of oriented gradients and local binary patterns. Indeed, a three-layer tree-based binary program is learned using genetic programming for each pair of classes. The three layers incorporate patch detection, feature fusion and classification in the GP optimization process. The feature fusion function is designed to handle different variations, notably illumination and rotation, while reducing dimensionality. The proposed method has been compared, using six challenging collections of images, with multiple domain-expert GP and non-GP methods for binary and multi-class classifications. Results show that the proposed method significantly outperforms or achieves similar performance to relevant methods from the state-of-the-art, even with a limited number of training instances.

In soil texture classification, accuracy with interpretability is the key to sustainable agriculture and environmental management. The presented ATFEM (Advanced Triptych Feature Engineering and Modeling framework) framework synergizes handcrafted texture features with learned deep representations through a three-stream architecture: VGG-RTPNet (Residual Texture-Preserving Network based on Visual Geometry Group-16) for texture, ResNet-DANet (Residual Network integrated with Dual Attention Network) for semantics, and Swin-FANet (Shifted Window-based Frequency-Aware Network based on Transformer) for spectral spatial correlation. Subsequently, these branches help in extracting fine-grained structural, dual-attention-enhanced semantic, and spectral-spatial correlation-wise features of soil-image data. To further eliminate redundancy from the feature sets and arrive at the best representation, a Feature Fusion and Selection strategy employing an enhanced hybrid metaheuristic method termed EWJFO (Enhanced Wombat-Jellyfish Feature Optimization) is proposed. It synthesizes the adaptive exploration behavior of Wombat Optimization Algorithm (WOA) with the swift control convergence tempo of the Jellyfish Search Optimizer (JSO) to select the best feature subset. In addition, a new handcrafted descriptor for soil texture image analysis referred as Farthing Ornament of Histogram of Oriented Gradients (F-HOG) has been introduced with adapative. Conventional HOG is burdened with having high-dimensional redundancy and hence suffers from noise sensitivity, F-HOG combines the effect of a Butterworth frequency filter to remove the unwanted high-frequency artifacts and then goes on to perform the statistical selection of the most frequent gradient bins, thus reducing dimensions and retaining quite a bit of the discriminative structural information. The experiments were conducted on a self-built soil texture image dataset consisting of 4,000 labeled images distributed among five texture classes. ATFEM achieved an accuracy of 98.10%, an F1 score of 89.60%, Cohen’s kappa rating of 94.80%, and an AUC of 98.10%, outperforming cutting-edge methods such as CatBoost-DNN, GBDT-CNN, and SVC-RF. This work offers an upscalable, explainable, and expressively accurate solution for soil texture mapping in precision agriculture and environmental monitoring.

Recently, the classification of surface textures is carried out using various modelling approaches. To analyse the surface texture, most of the techniques uses large amount of training data which adds up to considerable computational cost. However, the implementation of various neural network models also requires significant amount of training images to classify surface textures. In the proposed paper, a deep learning-based model is presented using convolution neural network (CNN). Further, this model is divided into two sub models knowing model-1 and model-2. The approach is designed with customized parameters configuration to classify surface texture using a smaller number of training samples. The image feature vectors are generated using statistical operations to compute the physical appearance of the surface and a CNN model is used to classify the generated surfaces with appropriate labels into classes. The Kylberg Texture dataset is used to evaluate the proposed models using 16 texture classes. The advantage of proposed models over pre-trained networks is that the entire models is customized according to specific training requirements. Further, to demonstrate the state-of-the-art results, the proposed approach is compared with other existing techniques. Our experimental results are better than the conventional techniques and achieves an accuracy of 92.42% for model-1 and 96.36% for model-2. In addition, the proposed models maintain balance between accuracy and computational cost.