Classification of painting cracks for content-based analysis

Fazly Salleh Abas; Kirk Martinez

doi:10.1117/12.474012

22 May 2003 Classification of painting cracks for content-based analysis

Fazly Salleh Abas, Kirk Martinez

Proceedings Volume 5011, Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection XI; (2003) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474012
Event: Electronic Imaging 2003, 2003, Santa Clara, CA, United States

Abstract

In this paper we present steps taken to implement a content-based analysis of crack patterns in paintings. Cracks are first detected using a morphological top-hat operator and grid-based automatic thresholding. From a 1-pixel wide representation of crack patterns, we generate a statistical structure of global and local features from a chain-code based representation. A well structured model of the crack patterns allows post-processing to be performed such as pruning and high-level feature extraction. High-level features are extracted from the structured model utilising information mainly based on orientation and length of line segments. Our strategy for classifying the crack patterns makes use of an unsupervised approach which incorporates fuzzy clustering of the patterns. We present results using the fuzzy k-means technique.

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Fazly Salleh Abas and Kirk Martinez "Classification of painting cracks for content-based analysis", Proc. SPIE 5011, Machine Vision Applications in Industrial Inspection XI, (22 May 2003); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.474012

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