A novel parallel unsupervised texture segmentation approach

Abstract

Abstract This study presents a new idea for unsupervised texture segmentation from the angle of bionics. According to this idea, a novel approach called “side-by-side superposition unsupervised texture segmentation (SSUTS)” is designed. When doing texture segmentation in this paper, the traditional time–frequency analysis-based methods are improved by introducing the analytic phase theory and the Bi-dimensional Empirical mode decomposition (BEMD) theory. Experiments prove that the SSUTS approach is effective in texture segmentation of different styles. Article Highlights From the angle of bionics, an effective approach called “side-by-side superposition unsupervised texture segmentation (SSUTS)” is proposed in this paper. To get reasonable choice of texture segmentation tool for the approach of SSUTS, some classic texture segmentation methods are analyzed and compared in this paper. This paper shows and explains the improvements in texture segmentation, when the Bi-dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition (BEMD) theory and the two-dimensional analytic phase theory are applied in some classic texture segmentation methods.

Keywords

• Unsupervised texture segmentation
• Time–frequency analysis
• The analytic phase
• Bi-dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition (BEMD)