Efficient multispectral texture segmentation using multivariate statistics

A complete, low computational cost method is presented for multispectral textured image segmentation. The procedure performs a tesselation of the image into non-overlapped rectangular regions and decides about the homogeneity of each region, using statistical hypothesis testing. Regions labelled as homogeneous are used to estimate the parameters that are necessary to classify the pixels of the heterogeneous regions. The proposed scheme can also be used to estimate the number of different textures in the image. This represents an efficient alternative to other computationally expensive methods, such as those that employ clustering techniques