Swarm optimization based texture classification in extreme scale variations

Abstract

Texture analysis has remained a remarkably trendsetting and productive field of research in the last two decades. There has been much progress, but the impact of illumination changes on automated texture classification and segmentation has gained very less focus. Research work carried out in the field of texture identification frequently focuses on the identification of textures with intraclass changes including illumination, rotation, viewpoint and small scale variations. Consequently, variations in texture owing to modifications in scale constitute among the ones that are difficult to manage. In this research work, as the first step, the classification of textures due to vast changes in scale is studied. In order to deal with this problem, first the solution is introduced and then the scale changes are reduced based on the predominant patterns in the texture. Inspired by the challenges imposed by this issue, a novel swarm intelligence approach known as Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) algorithm is introduced for modifying the components in the hidden layers used during the network training, for the extraction of more useful semantic texture patterns.