Morphological hat-transform scale spaces and their use in texture classification

In this paper we present a multiscale morphological method for use in texture classification. A connected operator similar to the morphological hat-transform is defined, and two scale-space representations are built. The most important features are extracted from the scale spaces by unsupervised cluster analysis, and the resulting pattern vectors provide the input of a decision tree classifier. We obtain 93.5 % correct classification for the Brodatz texture database.

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