Antipole Clustering For Fast Texture Synthesis

Battiato S., Pulvirenti A., Reforgiato Recupero D.

Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica - Università di Catania

Viale A. Doria 6 - 95125- Catania Italy

Keywords: Texture Synthesis, Pyramid Decomposition, Antipole Clustering, Nearest-neighbor.

Abstract

This paper describes a new method for analysis/synthesis of textures using a non-parametric multi-resolution

approach able to reproduce efficiently the generative stochastic process of a wide class of real texture images.

This is realized through a new data structure the Antipole Tree and a suitable research strategy able to outperform

both the classical linear full-search heuristic and the TSVQ (Tree Structure Vector Quantization) acceleration

used in previous related works. Experimental results performed on an exhaustive set of textures [VisTex] show

the effectiveness of the proposed approach.