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Spatio-spectral networks for color-texture analysis

13 Sep 2019arXiv:1909.06446archive 2025-07-28

Leonardo F. S. Scabini, Lucas C. Ribas, Odemir M. Bruno

Texture is one of the most-studied visual attribute for image characterization since the 1960s. However, most hand-crafted descriptors are monochromatic, focusing on the gray scale images and discarding the color information. In this context, this work focus on a new method for color texture analysis considering all color channels in a more intrinsic approach. Our proposal consists of modeling color images as directed complex networks that we named Spatio-Spectral Network (SSN). Its topology includes within-channel edges that cover spatial patterns throughout individual image color channels, while between-channel edges tackle spectral properties of channel pairs in an opponent fashion. Image descriptors are obtained through a concise topological characterization of the modeled network in a multiscale approach with radially symmetric neighborhoods. Experiments with four datasets cover several aspects of color-texture analysis, and results demonstrate that SSN overcomes all the compared literature methods, including known deep convolutional networks, and also has the most stable performance between datasets, achieving 98.5(±1.1) of average accuracy against 97.1(±1.3) of MCND and 96.8(±3.2) of AlexNet. Additionally, an experiment verifies the performance of the methods under different color spaces, where results show that SSN also has higher performance and robustness.

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