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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 16, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 25, 2010
Reyer Zwiggelaar, Llanafan, GB;
Harry Strange, Carmarthen, GB;
Reyer Zwiggelaar, Llanafan, GB;
Harry Strange, Carmarthen, GB;
Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, GB;
Abstract
A method for identifying the connectivity of texture types represented in a digital image comprising pixels, each pixel having a texture value which is representative of texture at a respective position, the method comprising: partitioning the texture values into local neighborhoods of texture values; determining a directionality for each neighborhood; using the directionality of the neighborhoods to determine their nearest neighborhood or neighborhoods; connecting the neighborhoods with their nearest neighborhood or neighborhoods; and determining the connectivity of the texture types of the digital image based on the connections formed between neighborhoods.