Dynamic texture recognition using normal flow and texture regularity

Abstract

The processing, description and recognition of dynamic (time-varying) textures are new exciting areas of texture analysis. Many real-world textures are dynamic textures whose retrieval from a video database should be based on both dynamic and static features. In this article, a method for extracting features revealing fundamental properties of dynamic textures is presented. These features are based on the normal flow and on the texture regularity though the sequence. Their discriminative ability is then successfully demonstrated on a full classification process. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005.