Texture Analysis in the Presence of Speckle Noise

We investigate the performance of selected texture models for the purpose of land use classification. The texture models are evaluated based on the resulting classification error rates. Three classes of texture models are evaluated: fractal models, lognormal random fields and grey level co-occurrence matrices. The effect of filtering and noise transformation is investigated. The lognormal random field model gives the best performance.

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