A New Approach for Texture Features Extraction: Application for Text Localization in Video Images

In this paper we present a new texture feature extraction approach. Existing methods are generally time consuming and sensible to image complexity in terms of texture´s regularity, directionality and coarseness. So that we propose a method which provide both rapidity and accuracy to extract and characterize texture features. It´s based on Hough transform technique combined with an extremity segment´s neighbourhood analysis and a new computation algorithm to extract segments and detect regularity. Experimental results show that this approach is robust and can be applied not only to texture analysis but also to detect text within video images