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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 21, 2007
Filed:
May. 02, 2005
Ross Mitchell, Calgary, CA;
Hongmei Zhu, Richmond Hill, CA;
Yunyan Zhang, Calgary, CA;
Alan Law, Kelowna, CA;
Ross Mitchell, Calgary, CA;
Hongmei Zhu, Richmond Hill, CA;
Yunyan Zhang, Calgary, CA;
Alan Law, Kelowna, CA;
Calgary Scientific Inc., Calgary, Alberta, CA;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a method and system for segmenting texture of multi-dimensional data indicative of a characteristic of an object. Received multi-dimensional data are transformed into second multi-dimensional data within a Stockwell domain based upon a polar S-transform of the multi-dimensional data. Principal component analysis is then applied to the second multi-dimensional data for generating texture data characterizing texture around each data point of the multi-dimensional data. Using a classification process the data points of the multi-dimensional data are partitioned into clusters based on the texture data. Finally, a texture map is produced based on the partitioned data points. The present invention provides image texture segmentation based on the polar S-transform having substantially reduced redundancy while keeping maximal data variation.