Morphological Texture Analysis: An Introduction

Abstract

Texture is commonly defined as the characteristic physical structure given to an object by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts. Texture characterisation is therefore a difficult problem that cannot be solved by a single measurement. Mathematical morphology, being a theory for the analysis of spatial structures, naturally offers a variety of techniques useful for texture characterisation. We show that the shape, size, orientation, and periodicity of ordered textures as well as some features of disordered textures can be revealed by appropriate morphological transformations.