Clustering Techniques for Marble Image Classification
Figure - On the left an original image marble, and on the rigth the respective marble signature showing the homogeneous regions obtained by our quadtree approach (images with low resolution).
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Abstract: Automatic marbles classification based on their visual appearance is an important industrial issue. However, there is no definitive solution to the problem mainly due to the presence of randomly distributed high number of different colours and its subjective evaluation by the human expert. In this paper we present a study of segmentation techniques, we evaluate they overall performance using a training set and standard quality measures and finally we apply different clustering techniques to automatically classify the marbles.
Keywords: Segmentation, Clustering, Quadtrees, Learning Vector Quantization (LVQ), Simulated Annealing (SA), Image Processing, Image Analysis.
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