Color- and texture-based image segmentation using local feature analysis approach

Image segmentation is one of the most challenging problems in image processing. While significant progress has been made in gray-scale texture segmentation and color segmentation problem separately, the combined color and texture segmentation problem is less considered. In this paper, we use independent component analysis to extract local color and texture features for segmentation. Experiments compared with gray-scale texture analysis method show that the proposed method is more effective in segmenting complex color and texture images.