Boston University Center for Adaptive Systems and Department of Cognitive and Neural Systems
Abstract
We describe the ARTEX 2 neural network for recognition of visual textures at arbitrary orientations. ARTEX 2 recognizes visual textures by first passing them through a preprocessing stage which rotates them to a canonical orientation. The resulting canonically-oriented visual textures are then classified by a simplified version of the ARTEX texture-recognition algorithm. Several approaches to determining the proper angle for rotation to a canonical orientation are investigated, and their respective performances are compared on a 20-class database of visual textures.Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and Office of Naval Research (N00014-95-1-0409
