Bread crumb classification using fractal and multifractal features

Abstract

Adequate image descriptors are fundamental in image classification and object recognition. Main requirements for image features are robustness and low dimensionality which would lead to low classification errors in a variety of situations and with a reasonable computational cost. In this context, the identification of materials poses a significant challenge, since typical (geometric and/or differential) feature extraction methods are not robust enough. Texture features based on Fourier or wavelet transforms, on the other hand, do withstand geometric and illumination variations, but tend to require a high amount of descriptors to perform adequately. Recently, the theory of fractal sets has shown to provide local image features that are both robust and low-dimensional. In this work we apply fractal and multifractal feature extraction techniques for bread crumb classification based on colour scans of slices of different bread types. Preliminary results show that fractal based classification is able to distinguish different bread crumbs with very high accuracy.