A comparative study of texture coarseness measures

There are a wide variety of measures in the literature that capture the ¿coarseness¿ texture property. Some of them have better ability to represent coarseness than the others. Furthermore, some of them are more robust against the variation of other image features, like brightness, contrast, noise and size of the image. In this paper, we propose to study the robustness and the relationship with human coarseness perception of 17 classical measures of coarseness, in order to obtain a ranking of measures. This ranking can be used to identify those measures that have the highest relationship degree with perception and the least variation with the other image features.