Comparison of Three Statistical Texture Measures for Lamb Grading

Texture is one of the most important features in the analysis of images. It has been increasingly used in computer vision applications. In this study, the ability of three statistical texture analysis measures to perform lamb grading were compared with respect to the classification accuracy. The texture measures examined were the grey level difference method (GLDM), the spatial grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) and the grey level run length matrix (GLRM). In addition, some image geometric features were also measured. The dimensionality of the input feature space was reduced using principal component analysis (PCA). The classification was performed using individual reduced feature sets and their combinations. Both discriminant function analysis (DFA) and artificial neural network (ANN) analysis were used for classification of lamb chop images into different grades. The results indicated that GLCM is the best texture measure, of the three texture measures considered, for lamb grading. The geometric features also performed equally well. Both GLCM and geometric features performed better than GLRM and GLDM. The higher classification performance was achieved by combining feature sets. The ANN produced higher classifications than DFA