Textures have been used in various applications, such as carpet quality control, region recognition in satellite images, and body painting control in the vehicle industry. This paper studies texture synthesis. We survey the algorithms for synthesizing textures that have proposed over the past two decades. A variety of algorithms associated with synthesized textures are given. The goal is to fur...

Spatial pooling is often considered synonymous with averaging (or other statistical combinations) of local information contained within a complex visual image. We have recently shown, however, that spatial pooling of motion signals is better characterized in terms of optimal decoding of neuronal populations rather than image statistics (Webb et al., 2007). Here we ask which computations guide t...

Genetic programming is used to automatically synthesize procedural textures for 3D surfaces. The GP system evolves textures with similar colour and surface characteristics as training textures sampled on 3D models. The texture language includes mathematical operators, colour and noise functions, as well as surface information for the point being rendered, such as coordinates, normal, and gradie...