Area fractions by linear analysis of intensity level histograms

Author

Costa, José Antônio T Borges da

Author_Institution

Dept. de Fisica, Univ. Fed. de Santa Maria, Brazil

fYear

2003

fDate

12-15 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

238

Lastpage

244

Abstract

Linear analysis of intensity level histograms is proposed as a method to determine the area fractions of homogeneous components of images. The area fractions are the coefficients of the respective histograms in the linear combination that best fits the histogram of the entire image. This method can be applied whenever the components can be identified by their individual histograms which must be linearly independent. Its accuracy was tested for images of real surfaces that were edited to contain known fractions of the components, and it proved to be suitable for the analysis of images made of textured components that show large overlapping of their histograms.

Keywords

image colour analysis; image resolution; image sampling; image segmentation; image texture; minimisation; probability; surface fitting; area fractions determination; homogeneous image component; image analysis; intensity level histogram; linear analysis; real surface; textured component; Histograms; Image analysis; Image processing; Image segmentation; Image texture analysis; Independent component analysis; Pixel; Surface texture; Testing; Vegetation mapping;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Graphics and Image Processing, 2003. SIBGRAPI 2003. XVI Brazilian Symposium on

ISSN

1530-1834

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2032-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIBGRA.2003.1241015

Filename

1241015