Texture classification based on co-occurrence matrix and self-organizing map

This article presents a hybrid approach for texture-based image classification using the gray-level co-occurrence matrices (GLCM) and self-organizing map (SOM) methods. The GLCM is a matrix of how often different combinations of pixel brightness values (grey levels) occur in an image. The GLCM matrices extracted from an image database are processed to create the training data set for a SOM neural network. The SOM model organizes and extracts prototypes from processed GLCM matrices. This paper proposes a novel strategy to index match scores by searching through prototypes. A benchmark data set is used to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed methodology. The evaluation of performance is based on accuracy in the framework of a Monte Carlo experience. This approach is compared with several classifiers in Li et al. The experimental results on the Brodatz texture image database demonstrate that the proposed method is encouraging with an average successful rate of 97%.