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A new issue in texture analysis is its extension to temporal domain, known as dynamic texture. Many real-world textures are dynamic textures whose retrieval from a video database should be based on both dynamic and static features. In this article, a method for extracting features revealing fundamental properties of dynamic textures is presented. Their interpretation enables qualitative request...

The formation of the textures on the surface of the films from the solutions of bovine serum albumin (BSA) with sodium halides (NaF, NaCl, and NaBr) of various concentrations was studied. The formation of symmetric zigzag textures on the surface of BSA films (Cryst Eng 3:173-194, 2000) in the presence of sodium halides depends on the conformational state of the protein globule. Thermal denatura...

A method of evaluating human visual impressions of gray scale textures using morphological manipulation is proposed. To study the effects of textural features on human Kansei, we introduced a texture analysis method based on mathematical morphology. Kansei is a Japanese word for sensibility or emotion. Kansei engineering is an approach to connect human sensibility with engineering applications....

The goal of this paper is to evaluate non-parametric algorithms that achieve 3D texture synthesis from a single 2D sample. The algorithms under study are variants of the algorithm proposed by Wei and Levoy [1]. Several authors have proposed different algorithms that intend to better reproduce, in the output texture, the diversity learned in the input sample. Hence, we turn our attention to the ...

We present an algorithm based on statistical learning for synthesizing static and time-varying textures matching the appearance of an input texture. Our algorithm is general and automatic, and it works well on various types of textures including 1D sound textures, 2D texture images and 3D texture movies. The same method is also used to generate 2D texture mixtures that simultaneously capture th...

A system is proposed which analyzes various textures statistically or structurally, depending on the nature of the textures. The system first describes a texture globally by both gray level first order statistics and edge statistics to roughly classify it. Next, the system extracts homogeneous gray level regions to try to describe the texture structurally. However, if too many regions are extra...

We address the problem of modeling the spatial and temporal second-order statistics of video sequences that exhibit both spatial and temporal regularity, intended in a statistical sense. We model such sequences as dynamic multiscale autoregressive models, and introduce an efficient algorithm to learn the model parameters. We then show how the model can be used to synthesize novel sequences that...

This paper describes a new Image Based Rendering technique aimed at increasing the realism of textured cylindrical surfaces by adding 3D details and enhancing the depth conceived by the viewer. Cylindrical relief texture mapping extends the existing work on planar relief textures by using cylinders as warp surfaces. After mapping the planar relief texture to a reference cylinder, cylindrical wa...

We examine the field equations of a self-gravitating texture in low-energy superstring gravity, allowing for an arbitrary coupling of the texture field to the dilaton. Both massive and massless dilatons are considered. For the massless dilaton, we find that non-singular spacetimes only exist for certain values of the coupling, dependent on the gravitational strength of the texture. For the mass...