Goal-Directed Textured-Image Segmentation

The SLICE segmentation system identifies image regions that differ in gray-level distribution, color, spatial texture, or some other local property. This report concentrates on textured-image segmentation using local texture-energy measures and user delimited training regions. Knowledge of target textures or signatures is combined with knowledge of background textures by using histogram-similarity transforms to identify regions that are similar to a target texture and dissimilar to other textures.