background & aim: tragacanth is a natural gum obtained from the dried sap of several species of middle eastern egumes of the genus astragalus, that is a viscous, odorless, tasteless, water-soluble mixture of polysaccharides. tragacanth is used in pharmaceutical and foods industries as an emulsifier, thickener, stabilizer, and texturant additive. sponge cake is one of the most popular bakery...

We used fMRI on neurologically intact humans to investigate whether or not there are different neural substrates for the different kinds of information that a visual surface signals (shape from texture vs material properties from texture). Participants attended to differences in the shape (flat/convex), texture and color (wood/rock), or material properties (soft/hard) of a set of circular surfa...

Image-based texture overlay or retexturing is the process of augmenting a surface in an image or a video sequence with a new, synthetic texture. Some properties of the original texture such as texture distortion as well as lighting conditions should be preserved for a realistic appearance of the augmented result. One approach would be to estimate a 3-dimensional geometry of the surface. However...

This study evaluated the effects of different flours (tapioca, wheat, sago and potato) on the physicochemical properties of duck sausage. The examined physicochemical properties included proximate composition, cooking yield, color (lightness, redness and yellowness), folding, texture profile (hardness, elasticity, cohesiveness, gumminess and chewiness) and sensory properties. The study found th...

chapatti is high consuming bread in the southeast countries of asia that in fresh form has a tender texture but within a few days of storage, becomes inflexible. in this research, the effects of guar and cmc gums at two levels of 0.25 and 0.5% on quality of chapatti bread were investigated. based on results, gum addition in different levels increased moisture and ash contends and improved rheol...

Perception of different textures is caused by differences in distribution of properties of texture elements. However, in practice it is difficult to extract useful texture elements, especially from natural images in which texture elements exist at various scales. To extract texture elements of all sizes a multiscale approach is unavoidable. This paper describes a multiscale method, based on mea...

Morphological granulometry has been shown to be effective in a range of texture analysis applications. We describe an extension to the standard approach which allows truly local properties of the texture to be measured at each pixel. The result is a set of texture features which are analogous to those which could be measured for individual texture primitives, if they could be isolated. We demon...

Studies with mammograms have demonstrated a relationship between parenchymal texture and breast cancer risk. Although promising, texture analysis in mammograms is limited by the effect of tissue superimposition. Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) is a novel tomographic x-ray breast imaging modality that alleviates the effect of tissue superimposition. We explore the potential advantages of DBT ...

Texture-based models are intensively used in medical image processing to quantify the homogeneity and consistency of soft tissues across different patients. Several research studies have shown that the co-occurrence texture model and its Haralick descriptors can be successfully applied to capture the statistical properties of the soft tissues’ patterns. Given that the calculation of the co-occu...

In this paper, we study how a multidimensional local binary pattern (LBP) texture feature data can be visually explored and analyzed. The goal is to determine how true paper properties can be characterized with local texture features from visible light images. We utilize isometric feature mapping (Isomap) for the LBP texture feature data and perform non-linear dimensionality reduction for the d...