Analyzing Natural Images: A Computational Theory of Texture Vision

Abstract

The vision problem begins with a large, gray-level intensity array and culminates in a description that depends on that array and on the purpose for which it is being viewed. The problem of interest is what has to go on in between. In this article, we shall restrict our attention to single-frame, monochromatic, monocular images without specularities, reflections, translucency, transparency or light sources and shall study some of the problems that arise in understanding early and intermediate levels of visual information processing.