FRACTAL DIMENSION ESTIMATION FOR TEXTURE IMAGES - A PARALLEL APPROACH

Fractal dimension is an important parameter that can be used in variou s applications, such as, estimation of roughness in an image, texture segmentation, surface roughness estimation and many others. A number o f techniques for fractal dimension computation in the digital domain h ave been reported in the literature. A parallel implementation of the Differential Box Counting technique is reported in this paper. The acc uracy and computational complexity of the parallel implementation are also discussed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.