the characteristic texture of turrón, torrone and nougat was examined. they are typical european confections prepared from almonds, honey, sugars and/or chocolate. three different instrumental tests: puncture, cutting, and texture profile analysis (tpa), were used in this study and samples prepared from three countries (spain, italy, and france), and by six manufacturing companies (two companie...

naqib al-mamalek shirazi, the court storyteller of naser al-din shah, has composed two tales: amir arsalan and malek jamshid. naqib created amir arsalan for naser al-din shah and retold it to him frequently, but he composed malek jamshid in a different condition. this essay attempts to study stylistic differences between the two texts. the goal is to show the role of textural factors and the ci...

This chapter reviews and discusses various aspects of texture analysis. The concentration is on the various methods of extracting textural features from images. The geometric, random field, fractal, and signal processing models of texture are presented. The major classes of texture processing problems such as segmentation, classification, and shape from texture are discussed. The possible appli...

The authors proposed the texture unit-based texture spectrum approach in 1990, which has been used for texture analysis, including texture characterization, texture classification, texture edge detection, and textural filtering. One of the most important disadvantages related to this method is the large number of texture units (6,561) and its redundancy. This paper aims at simplifying the origi...

This paper uses theory, simulation, and laboratory experiment, to show that directional illumination, used during the image acquisition process, acts as a directional filter of three dimensional texture. It is shown that the directional characteristics of image texture are not intrinsic to the physical texture being imaged, as they are affected by the direction of the illumination. This result ...