TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION USING CURVELET TRANSFORM

Abstract

Texture classification has long been an important research topic in image processing. Nowadays classification based on wavelet transform is being very popular. Wavelets are very effective in representing objects with isolated point singularities, but failed to represent line singularities. Recently, ridgelet transform which deal effectively with line singularities in 2D is introduced. But images often contain curves rather than straight lines, so curvelet transform is designed to handle it. It allows representing edges and other singularities along lines in a more efficient way when compared with other transforms. In this paper, the issue of texture classification based on curvelet transform has been analyzed. Features are derived from the sub-bands of the curvelet decomposition and are used for classification for the four different datasets containing 20, 30, 112 and 129 texture images respectively. Experimental results show that this approach allows high degree of success rate in classification to be obtained.