Texture Classification Using VQ with Feature Extraction based on Transforms Motivated by the Human Visual System

Texture identification can be a key component in CBIR (Content Based Image Recognition) systems. It can also be a tool for separation of video object planes in MPEG4 video compression systems. Although formal definitions of texture vary in the literature, it is commonly accepted that textures are naturally extracted and recognized as such by the human visual system, and that this analysis is performed in the frequency domain.