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A TV flow based local scale measure for texture discrimination

Thomas Brox, J. Weickert
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Springer, LNCS, Vol.3022: 578-590, May 2004
Abstract: We introduce a technique for measuring local scale, based on a special property of the so-called total variational (TV) flow. For TV flow, pixels change their value with a speed that is inversely proportional to the size of the region they belong to. Exploiting this property directly leads to a region based measure for scale that is well-suited for texture discrimination. Together with the image intensity and texture features computed from the second moment matrix, which measures the orientation of a texture, a sparse feature space of dimension 5 is obtained that covers the most important descriptors of a texture: magnitude, orientation, and scale. A demonstration of the performance of these features is given in the scope of texture segmentation.


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@InProceedings{Bro04b,
  author       = "T. Brox and J. Weickert",
  title        = "A TV flow based local scale measure for texture discrimination",
  booktitle    = "European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)",
  series       = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science",
  volume       = "3022",
  pages        = "578-590",
  month        = "May",
  year         = "2004",
  publisher    = "Springer",
  url          = "http://lmb.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/Publications/2004/Bro04b"
}

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