Texton Explained

The term texton was introduced by Béla Julesz in 1981 to describe "the putative units of pre-attentive human texture perception."^[1] The term reemerged in the late 1990s and early 2000s to describe vector quantized responses of a linear filter bank.^{[2] [3]}

Notes and References

1. Bela Julesz . Textons, the Elements of Texture Perception, and their Interactions . Rk. 290 . 91–97 . March 1981 . 10.1038/290091a0 . 7207603 . Julesz . B . 5802. 1981Natur.290...91J . 4327694 .
2. . Representing and recognizing the visual appearance of materials using three-dimensional textons . International Journal of Computer Vision . 43 . 1 . 29–44 . 2001 . 10.1023/A:1011126920638 . 14915716 .
3. J. Malik, S. Belongie, T. Leung and J. Shi . Contour and Texture Analysis for Image Segmentation . International Journal of Computer Vision . 43 . 1 . 7–27 . 2001 . 10.1023/A:1011174803800 . 17582380 .