A texture analysis framework and its applications in video coding

Proposes a new texture measurement-full custom texture measurement (FCTM) which provides a general framework for the analysis of images from a textural viewpoint. It is shown in the paper that different textural features can be designed through FCTM. In particular, it is demonstrated that the conventional co-occurrence matrix-based texture features are special cases of FCTM. Combined with multiresolution signal processing, FCTM is used for motion estimation in video coding. Experimental results show that coding methods incorporating FCTM provide reconstruction quality superior to the well known codecs