Composite Texture Shape Classification Based on Morphological Skeleton and Regional Moments

After several decades of research, the development of an effective feature extraction method for texture classification is still an ongoing effort. Therefore , several techniques have been proposed to resolve such problems. In this paper a novel composite texture classification method based on innovative pre-processing techniques, skeletonization and Regional moments (RM) is proposed. This proposed texture classification approach, takes into account the ambiguity brought in by noise and the different caption and digitization processes. To offer better classification rate, innovative pre-processing methods are applied on various texture images first. Pre-processing mechanisms describe various methods of converting a grey level image into binary image with minimal consideration of the noise model. Then shape features are evaluated using RM on the proposed Morphological Skeleton (MS) method by suitable numerical characterization measures for a precise classification. This texture classification study using MS and RM has given a good performance. Good classification result is achieved from a single region moment RM10 while others failed in classification.