The goal of this dissertation is to attain a fast texture synthesis technique able to generate visually pleasing results from a sample texture for a wide range of texture categories. Computer graphics applications often use textures to decorate virtual objects in order to increase realism without modifying geometric details. In recent years, texture synthesis has been a useful tool to generate ...

The goal of this dissertation is to attain a fast texture synthesis technique able to generate visually pleasing results from a sample texture for a wide range of texture categories. Computer graphics applications often use textures to decorate virtual objects in order to increase realism without modifying geometric details. In recent years, texture synthesis has been a useful tool to generate ...

This article presents a statistical theory for texture modeling. This theory combines ltering theory and Markov random eld modeling through the maximum entropy principle , and interprets and clariies many previous concepts and methods for texture analysis and synthesis from a uniied point of view. Our theory characterizes the ensemble of images I with the same texture appearance by a probabilit...

This article presents a statistical theory for texture modeling. This theory combines ltering theory and Markov random eld modeling through the maximum entropy principle, and interprets and clariies many previous concepts and methods for texture analysis and synthesis from a uniied point of view. Our theory characterizes the ensemble of images I with the same texture appearance by a probability...

Continuous tone images must be halftoned to be displayed on binary output devices such as printers. The ordered dither algorithm is a popular approach to halftoning. This algorithm uses a threshold matrix to approximate gray scale values. The arrangement of thresholds in the matrix determines texture artifacts introduced into the halftoned image. Thus, the challenge of research in ordered dithe...

Considerable evidence suggests that a viewer’s perception of the 3D shape of a polygonally-defined object can be significantly affected (either masked or enhanced) by the presence of a surface texture pattern. However investigations into the specific mechanisms of texture’s effect on shape perception are still ongoing and the question of how to design and apply a texture pattern to a surface in...

Texture classification and segmentation have been extensively researched over the last thirty years. Early on the Brodatz album[1] quickly became the de facto standard in which a texture class comprised a set of nonoverlapping sub-images cropped from a single photograph. Later, as the focus shifted to investigating illuminationand pose-invariant algorithms, the CUReT database[3] became popular ...

Te xture On Demand (TOD) is a technique for organizing large amounts of stored texture data in disk files and accessing it efficiently. Simply reading entire texture images into memory is not a good solution for real memory systems or for virtual memory systems. Te xture data should be read from disk files only on demand. In the TOD technique, each texture image is stored as a sequence of fixed...

T he underlying aim of this research is to investigate the mathematical descriptions of homogeneous textures in digital images for the purpose of segmentation and recognition. The research covers the problem of testing these mathematical descriptions by using them to generate synthetic realisations of the homogeneous texture for subjective and analytical comparisons with the source texture from...