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Texture synthesis: textons revisited.

Dimitrios Charalampidis1

  • 1Department of Electrical Engineering, College of Engineering, University of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA 70148, USA. dcharala@uno.edu

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing : a Publication of the IEEE Signal Processing Society
|March 8, 2006
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This study presents a novel technique for synthesizing natural textures, including structural and quasiperiodic types. The method jointly handles illumination, structure, and stochastic components for realistic, non-verbatim texture generation.

Area of Science:

  • Computer Graphics
  • Image Synthesis
  • Computational Textures

Background:

  • Natural textures are often characterized by illumination, structure, and stochastic components.
  • Previous texture synthesis methods often struggle to jointly model these components, especially when they are correlated or irregular.
  • Existing texton-based approaches typically assume perfect periodicity, limiting their applicability to irregular textures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce a novel technique for synthesizing natural textures, focusing on quasiperiodic and structural textures.
  • To propose a joint approach for handling global illumination, irregular structure, and correlated stochastic components in texture synthesis.
  • To develop a method that synthesizes textures without producing verbatim copies of the original.

Main Methods:

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  • A top-down approach for texture element (texton) extraction, allowing for irregular and non-identical shapes without assuming periodicity.
  • Design of a nonregular textural structure with 'empty textons' (e-textons) as placeholders.
  • A texton shape-matching procedure to fill e-textons, followed by illumination integration and a localized block sampling technique for stochastic component synthesis.

Main Results:

  • The proposed technique successfully synthesizes structural textures that are visually indistinguishable from the originals.
  • The method demonstrates effectiveness in generating a variety of stochastic textures.
  • Joint handling of texture components leads to significant improvements in synthesized texture appearance.

Conclusions:

  • The developed technique offers a robust method for synthesizing complex natural textures, including those with irregular structures.
  • The approach overcomes limitations of previous methods by not assuming periodicity and by jointly modeling texture components.
  • This work advances the field of texture synthesis, enabling the creation of highly realistic and varied textures.