The main purpose of this book is to bring together a collection of dening
works that span the breadth of knowledge in texture analysis - from 2D to
3D, from feature extraction to synthesis, from texture image acquisition to
classication, and much more. The works presented in this book are from
some of the most prominent international researchers in the eld. The
reader will nd each chapter a dening testament to the state of the art in
the area of texture analysis describe therein, as well as a springboard for
further investigation into it.