Fractal Texture Analysis Research Articles

Kinematics Model Estimation of 4W Skid-Steering Mobile Robots Using Visual Terrain Classification

Accurate real-time kinematics model is very important for the control of a skid-steering mobile robot. In this study, the kinematics model of the skid-steering mobile robots was first designed based on instantaneous rotation centers (ICRs). Then, the extended Kalman filter (EKF) technique was applied to obtain the parameters of ICRs under the same specific terrain online. To adapt to different terrain environments, the fractal dimension-based SFTA (segmentation-based fractal texture analysis) method was used to extract features of different terrains, and the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) method was used to classify the terrains. In the case of real-time terrain recognition, the filter parameters of the EKF for estimating the ICRs are adjusted adaptively. Experiments on a real skid-steering mobile robot show that this method can quickly estimate the kinematics model of the robot in the case of terrain changes, and can meet the needs of practical applications. The average error of odometer estimation based on visual terrain classification is 0.06 m, while the average error of odometer estimation without terrain classification is 0.14 m.

A robust IoT-based cloud model for COVID-19 prediction using advanced machine learning technique

Due to the rapid spread of COVID-19, an urgent need arose for a quick and accurate diagnosis approach. The well-known RT-PCR test is often unavailable and too costly for many suspected cases. In contrast, the chest X-ray scan proves to be a robust and efficient tool for promptly identifying the virus, using various cost-effective tests. This study proposes a hybrid intelligent model for identifying COVID-19 patients based on their chest X-ray scans. The proposed model consists of five phases. Firstly, the X-ray images are preprocessed using a median filter to enhance and remove noise. Secondly, robust invariant and high-level engineering features are extracted using five different feature extraction methods, namely (speeded up robust features (SURF), grey-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), histogram of oriented gradients (HoG), segmentation-based fractal texture analysis (SFTA), and local binary pattern (LBP) to help in rapid diagnosis. Then these features are fused to complement the gap of each other and to achieve the best performance. Thirdly, a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) is used to classify the chest X-ray scans of infected COVID-19 patients. Then, the proposed model is compared with different machine learning techniques under different quality measures. Fourthly, an IoT platform composed of a mobile client application and a backend system is designed. The mobile client application captures the content from the patient side, handles these captured images, and prepares them for rapid sending to the backend side for further processing. The backend system receives the patient images from the client side and applies the proposed model to diagnose the COVID-19 patients. Finally, a cloud-based design for the platform utilizes the modern AWS services characterized by availability, elasticity, coverage, configurability, and reliability. The results show that the proposed model has a good accuracy of around (99.31%) and outperforms the other models. Therefore, the proposed model could be used for real-time automatic early recognition of COVID-19 cases.

Assessment of high-quality counterfeit stamp impressions generated by inkjet printers via texture analysis and likelihood ratio

High-quality counterfeit stamp impressions made by inkjet printers remain challenging in questioned document examination and forensic analyses. A dataset comprised of various printed stamp impressions, using ten options of conditions and materials, and hand stamped impressions was generated. In this paper, we report printed impressions in pure color and high-quality printing mode are very similar to hand stamped impressions in terms of their microscopic characteristics. These similarities may lead to incorrect conclusions via traditional identification methods. Here, we proposed a method for identifying counterfeit stamp impressions via texture features and image quality parameters extracted from impressions. First, the statistical analysis methods were used to verify a significant difference between the printed and hand stamped impressions. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to show the variation between the impressions, and the differences between printed and hand stamped impressions were obvious in the three-dimensional plot. After filtering the background of the stamp impressions, image processing analysis was introduced to extract features of gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), segmentation-based fractal texture analysis (SFTA), local binary pattern (LBP), and image quality metrics (IQM), which were used to characterize the stamp impressions. Finally, specific cases were simulated by random selection, based on the dataset of stamp impressions, and an evaluation system for stamp evidence was established to calculate the likelihood ratios (LRs) under two alternative hypotheses. The likelihood ratio interprets calibrated evaluations on the strength of stamp impressions as evidence. We can also balance these LRs against the rates of misleading evidence with a reasonable performance (equal error rate = 0.048). This paper provides a system to differentiate high-quality printed and hand stamped impressions with reasonable performance.

Binary and Multi-Class Malware Threads Classification

The security of a computer system can be harmed by specific applications, such as malware. Malware comprises unwanted, dangerous enemies that aim to compromise the security and generate significant loss. Consequently, Malware Detection (MD) and Malware Classification (MC) has emerged as a key issue for the cybersecurity society. MD only involves locating malware without determining what kind of malware it is, but MC comprises assigning a class of malware to a particular sample. Recently, a few techniques for analyzing malware quickly have been put out. However, there remain numerous difficulties, such as the low classification accuracy of samples from related malware families, the computational complexity, and consumption of resources. These difficulties make detecting and classifying malware very challenging. Therefore, in this paper, we proposed an efficient malware detection and classification technique that combines Segmentation-based Fractal Texture Analysis (SFTA) and Gaussian Discriminant Analysis (GDA). The outcomes of the experiment demonstrate that the SFTA-GDA produces a high classification rate. There are three main steps involved in our malware analysis, namely: (i) malware conversion; (ii) feature extraction; and (iii) classification. We initially convert the RGB malware images into grayscale malware images for effective malware analysis. The SFTA and Gabor features are then extracted from gray-scale images in the feature extraction step. Finally, the classification is carried out by GDA and Naive Bayes (NB). The proposed method is evaluated on a common MaleVis dataset. The proposed SFTA-GDA is the effective choice since it produces the highest accuracy rate across all families of the MaleVis Database. Experimental findings indicate that the accuracy rate was 98%, which is higher than the overall accuracy from the existing state-of-the-art methods.

Machine learning approaches to resolve uncertain and conflicting inputs of patients with polytrauma cases

Picture highlights can be separated in different ways based on the shape highlights, shading highlights and surface highlights. There is a wide requirement for fragmenting objects in complex circumstances and recognizable proof of the articles. It has become mind-boggling because of the changeability of articles and the foundation. This paper targets planning a mixture approach called Enhanced Fractal Texture Analysis with Layout Descriptor by breaking down different element extraction and item acknowledgment methods. In this interaction, at first, the Adaptive Switching Median Filter pre-processes the picture. This is accomplished by eliminating commotion that is available in the picture without losing the fine characteristics. Other than the commotion decrease, safeguard edges are tended to a clamour-secured edge identifier. Afterward, in the morphological inclination method, which is the mix of shape and surface slope expulsion is applied for acquiring the characteristics of the picture. This methodology upholds further developing exactness expectations for the item. This planning strategy extricates shape included from the principal stage yield. Different subtleties like smallness, unpredictability and second invariants can be obtained in the methodology. The crossover approach diminishes the execution time when contrasted with the existing methods. This plan is powerful and creates better qualities as far as execution assessment. The term ‘coronary sickness’ suggests that square veins may provoke the conditions like cardiovascular disappointment, chest torture or stroke. The heart conditions will affect the heart’s muscle, valves, brain (cerebral aneurysm) or musicality inciting the heart pollution and sidestepping activity or coronary mediation which is utilized for settling these issues. In this examination work, a sensible cluster-based deep neural network (DNN) approach is proposed to recognize the angiographic coronary sickness (for instance to perceive the patients with half expansiveness abatement of a huge coronary vein). The educational assortment is collected using K-means clustering estimation and a while later the coronary sickness is expected using bunch based significant learning approach. The proposed method is differentiated and has various limits for classifier estimations like DNN, SVM-linear, SVM-polynomial, KNN, ELM, ELM-pack, and to show the system reasonability to the extent precision.

A Steganalysis Classification Algorithm Based on Distinctive Texture Features

Steganography is the technique for secretly hiding messages in media such as text, audio, image, and video without being discovered. Image is one of the most essential media for concealing data, making it hard to identify hidden data not visible to the human eye. In general, the cover image and the encrypted image are symmetrical in terms of dimension size, resolution, and qualities. This makes the difference difficult to perceive with the human eye. As a result, distinguishing between the two symmetric images required the development of methods. Steganalysis is a technique for identifying hidden messages embedded in digital material without having to know the embedding algorithm or the “non-stego” image. Due to their enormous feature vector dimension, which requires more time to calculate, the performance of most existing image steganalysis classification (ISC) techniques is still restricted. Therefore, in this research, we present a steganalysis classification method based on one of the texture features chosen, such as segmentation-based fractal texture analysis (SFTA), local binary pattern (LBP), and gray-level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). The classifiers employed include Gaussian discriminant analysis (GDA) and naïve Bayes (NB). We used a public database in our proposed method and applied it to IStego100K datasets to be able to assess its performance. The experimental results reveal that in all classifiers, the SFTA feature surpassed all of the texture features, making it a great texture feature for image steganalysis classification. In terms of feature dimension and classification accuracy (CA), a comparison was made between the suggested SFTA-based GDA approach and various current ISC methods. The outcomes of the comparison are obvious show that the proposed method surpasses current methods.

Learning Aided System for Agriculture Monitoring Designed Using Image Processing and IoT-CNN

The Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) based methods for monitoring, control, and decision support are combined to design of a smart agriculture assistance system. The proposed system has a sensor pack that provides continuous data capture of temperature records, air and soil moisture and a camera for obtaining near-infrared (NIR) images of the plant leaves for use with an AI decision support system. We identify twelve types of vegetation for the study, out of which five disease classes of the tomato leaves are categorized using a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The work also includes experiments conducted with multiple clustering-based segmentation methods and some features namely Gray level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM), Local binary pattern (LBP), Local Binary Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (LBGLCM), Gray Level Run Length Matrix (GLRLM), and Segmentation-based Fractal Texture Analysis (SFTA). Out of several AI tools, CNN proves to be effective in providing automated decision support for classifying the plant leaf disease types through a cloud server that can be accessed using an app. Extensive on-field trials show that the system (VGG16 CNN, GLCM and a fuzzy based clustering) is effective in hot and humid conditions and proves to be reliable in identifying disease classes of certain vegetable types, certain usable vegetation cover of farmland and regulation of watering mechanism of crops.

Forgery detection algorithm based on texture features

Any researcher's goal is to improve detection accuracy with a limited feature vector dimension. Therefore, in this paper, we attempt to find and discover the best types of texture features and classifiers that are appropriate for the coarse mesh finite differenc (CMFD). Segmentation-based fractal texture analysis (SFTA), local binary pattern (LBP), and Haralick are the texture features that have been chosen. K-nearest neighbors (KNN), naïve Bayes, and Logistics are also among the classifiers chosen. SFTA, local binary pattern (LBP), and Haralick feature vector are fed to the KNN, naïve Bayes, and logistics classifier. The outcomes of the experiment indicate that the SFTA texture feature surpassed all other texture features in all classifiers, making it the best texture feature to use in forgery detection. Haralick feature has the second-best texture feature performance in all of the classifiers. The performance using the LBP feature is lower than that of the other texture features. It also shows that the KNN classifier outperformed the other two in terms of accuracy. However, among the classifiers, the logistic classifier had the lowest accuracy. The proposed SFTA based KNN method is compared to other state-of-the-art techniques in terms of feature dimension and detection accuracy. The proposed method outperforms other current techniques.

Enhancing Machine Learning Models for Path Loss Prediction Using Image Texture Techniques

The performance of machine learning (ML)-based path loss models relies heavily on the data they use at their inputs. Feature engineering is, therefore, essential for the model's success. In this letter, at hand, we extract a new set of input features, based on image texture. The image that we use represents the footprint of the urban built-up area, where the gray scale values of the building blocks are analogue to their heights. We extract texture information by applying the segmentation-based fractal texture analysis algorithm on the orthogonal area that is bounded between the transmitter and the receiver. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time that such a technique is applied to a path loss modeling problem in electromagnetics. The algorithm, thus, delivers a new set of features, based on the image's texture, which eventually reveal the built-up profile of the area. These new features are injected to an already existing feature set. Comparative analysis shows that the addition of texture-based features leads to enhanced predictions, for a diverse set of transmitter heights, ML algorithms, and performance metrics.

An intelligence design for detection and classification of COVID19 using fusion of classical and convolutional neural network and improved microscopic features selection approach.

Coronavirus19 is caused due to infection in the respiratory system. It is the type of RNA virus that might infect animal and human species. In the severe stage, it causes pneumonia in human beings. In this research, hand‐crafted and deep microscopic features are used to classify lung infection. The proposed work consists of two phases; in phase I, infected lung region is segmented using proposed U‐Net deep learning model. The hand‐crafted features are extracted such as histogram orientation gradient (HOG), noise to the harmonic ratio (NHr), and segmentation based fractal texture analysis (SFTA) from the segmented image, and optimum features are selected from each feature vector using entropy. In phase II, local binary patterns (LBPs), speeded up robust feature (Surf), and deep learning features are extracted using a pretrained network such as inceptionv3, ResNet101 from the input CT images, and select optimum features based on entropy. Finally, the optimum selected features using entropy are fused in two ways, (i) The hand‐crafted features (HOG, NHr, SFTA, LBP, SURF) are horizontally concatenated/fused (ii) The hand‐crafted features (HOG, NHr, SFTA, LBP, SURF) are combined/fused with deep features. The fused optimum features vector is passed to the ensemble models (Boosted tree, bagged tree, and RUSBoosted tree) in two ways for the COVID19 classification, (i) classification using fused hand‐crafted features (ii) classification using fusion of hand‐crafted features and deep features. The proposed methodology is tested /evaluated on three benchmark datasets. Two datasets employed for experiments and results show that hand‐crafted & deep microscopic feature's fusion provide better results compared to only hand‐crafted fused features.

A novel framework for rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 on computed tomography scans

Since the emergence of COVID-19, thousands of people undergo chest X-ray and computed tomography scan for its screening on everyday basis. This has increased the workload on radiologists, and a number of cases are in backlog. This is not only the case for COVID-19, but for the other abnormalities needing radiological diagnosis as well. In this work, we present an automated technique for rapid diagnosis of COVID-19 on computed tomography images. The proposed technique consists of four primary steps: (1) data collection and normalization, (2) extraction of the relevant features, (3) selection of the most optimal features and (4) feature classification. In the data collection step, we collect data for several patients from a public domain website, and perform preprocessing, which includes image resizing. In the successive step, we apply discrete wavelet transform and extended segmentation-based fractal texture analysis methods for extracting the relevant features. This is followed by application of an entropy controlled genetic algorithm for selection of the best features from each feature type, which are combined using a serial approach. In the final phase, the best features are subjected to various classifiers for the diagnosis. The proposed framework, when augmented with the Naive Bayes classifier, yields the best accuracy of 92.6%. The simulation results are supported by a detailed statistical analysis as a proof of concept.

Segmentation-Based Fractal Texture Analysis (SFTA) to Detect Mass in Mammogram Images

ABSTRAK Di Indonesia, kasus kanker paling banyak adalah kanker payudara yaitu 58.256 kasus atau 16,7% dari total 348.809 kasus kanker. Dibutuhkan suatu sistem yang dapat membantu pakar untuk mendeteksi kanker payudara pada wanita dengan mengindentifikasi citra mammogram. Keabnormalan dapat dideteksi dari massa pada mammogram yaitu area dengan pola tekstur dan bentuk serta batas tertentu. Berdasarkan hal tersebut maka dibuat sebuah sistem yang dapat mendeteksi massa kanker pada citra mammogram menggunakan Segmentation-Based Fractal Texture Analysis (SFTA). Tahapan pertama akuisisi citra, dilanjut dengan segmentasi menggunakan k-means dan thresholding. Hasil dari segmentasi citra dilakukan tahapan morfologi menggunakan opening dan masking. Setelah itu dilakukan ekstraksi fitur SFTA, dan klasifikasi Support Vector Machine (SVM). Hasil pengujian penelitian ini didapatkan nilai akurasi sebesar 90%, presisi sebesar 87,75%, recall sebesar 93,33%dan f1-score 90,32% dengan nilai number of threshold (nt) SFTA adalah 3 Kata kunci: mammogram, SFTA, kanker payudara, klasifikasi ABSTRACT In Indonesia, the most cancer cases were breast cancer, namely 58,256 cases or 16.7% of the total 348,809 cancer cases. A system is required to assist the expert in detecting breast cancer in women by identifying mammogram images. Abnormalities in a mammogram are determined in part of texture with a particular form and specific limit, usually called a ‘mass.’ Image acquisition is perceived as the first step, followed by segmentation using the k-means and the thresholding. Image segmentation undergoes the morphological analysis steps using opening and masking methods, after feature extraction processing by SFTA, using Support Vector Machine (SVM) for classification processing. The obtained research result revealed an accuracy value of 90%, a precision value of 87.75%, a recall value of 93.33%, and an F1-Score of 90.32%, with the number of thresholds (nt) of SFTA amounting to 3. Keywords: Breast cancer, Mammogram, Classification, SFTA

A Simplified Fractal Texture Analysis Approach using Quadtree Decomposition with Huffman Coding Technique

A Simplified Fractal Texture Analysis Approach using Quadtree Decomposition with Huffman Coding Technique

A modified fractal texture image analysis based on grayscale morphology for multi-model views in MR Brain

<span>This paper presents a modified fractal texture feature analysis with the use of grayscale image morphology for automatic image classification of different views in MR brain images into normal and abnormal. This main contribution of this approach is a reduction of the total number of a threshold value, and the number of image decomposition, in which only the number of extract threshold value two or three are enough for tumor region extraction - compared to four or more is required in the previous method of SFTA (segmentation based fractal texture analysis). This is achieved by pre-processing of hierarchical transformation technique (HTT), which make use of morphological image transformations with the desired structural element. From this decomposed images, mean, area, fractal dimension and selective shape features are extracted and fed into KNN and ensemble bagged tree classifiers. Finally, some of the post-processing is handled for tumor region extraction and tumor cells computation. It is found that this proposed approach has superior results in the segmentation of diseased tissue from normal tissue and the prediction of image classes in terms of accuracy with the less number of threshold extraction and image decomposition rather than the SFTA algorithm.</span>

Texture features in the Shearlet domain for histopathological image classification

BackgroundA various number of imaging modalities are available (e.g., magnetic resonance, x-ray, ultrasound, and biopsy) where each modality can reveal different structural aspects of tissues. However, the analysis of histological slide images that are captured using a biopsy is considered the gold standard to determine whether cancer exists. Furthermore, it can reveal the stage of cancer. Therefore, supervised machine learning can be used to classify histopathological tissues. Several computational techniques have been proposed to study histopathological images with varying levels of success. Often handcrafted techniques based on texture analysis are proposed to classify histopathological tissues which can be used with supervised machine learning.MethodsIn this paper, we construct a novel feature space to automate the classification of tissues in histology images. Our feature representation is to integrate various features sets into a new texture feature representation. All of our descriptors are computed in the complex Shearlet domain. With complex coefficients, we investigate not only the use of magnitude coefficients, but also study the effectiveness of incorporating the relative phase (RP) coefficients to create the input feature vector. In our study, four texture-based descriptors are extracted from the Shearlet coefficients: co-occurrence texture features, Local Binary Patterns, Local Oriented Statistic Information Booster, and segmentation-based Fractal Texture Analysis. Each set of these attributes captures significant local and global statistics. Therefore, we study them individually, but additionally integrate them to boost the accuracy of classifying the histopathology tissues while being fed to classical classifiers. To tackle the problem of high-dimensionality, our proposed feature space is reduced using principal component analysis. In our study, we use two classifiers to indicate the success of our proposed feature representation: Support Vector Machine (SVM) and Decision Tree Bagger (DTB).ResultsOur feature representation delivered high performance when used on four public datasets. As such, the best achieved accuracy: multi-class Kather (i.e., 92.56%), BreakHis (i.e., 91.73%), Epistroma (i.e., 98.04%), Warwick-QU (i.e., 96.29%).ConclusionsOur proposed method in the Shearlet domain for the classification of histopathological images proved to be effective when it was investigated on four different datasets that exhibit different levels of complexity.

A new feature extraction process based on SFTA and DWT to enhance classification of ceramic tiles quality

We propose a combination of image processing methods to detect ceramic tiles defects automatically. The primary goal is to identify faults in ceramic tiles, with or without texture. The process consists of four steps: preprocessing, feature extraction, optimization, and classification. In the second step, gray-level co-occurrence matrix, segmentation-based fractal texture analysis, discrete wavelet transform, local binary pattern, and a novel method composed of segmentation-based fractal texture analysis and discrete wavelet transform are applied. The genetic algorithm was used to optimize the parameters. In the classification step, k-nearest neighbor, support vector machine, multilayer perceptron, probabilistic neural network, and radial basis function network were assessed. Two datasets were used to validate the proposed process, totaling 782 ceramic tiles. In comparison with the other feature extraction methods commonly used, we demonstrate that the use of SFTA with DWT had a remarkable increase in the overall accuracy, without compromising computational time. The proposed method can be executed in real time on actual production lines and reaches a defect detection accuracy of 99.01% for smooth tiles and 97.89% for textured ones.

Rough sets and social ski-driver optimization for drug toxicity analysis

Background and objectives: Toxicity testing is an important step for developing new drugs, and animals are widely used in this step by exposing them to the toxicants. Zebrafishes are widely used for measuring and detecting the toxicity. However, measuring and testing toxicity manually is not feasible due to the large number of embryos. This work presents an automated model to investigate the toxicity of two toxicants (3, 4-Dichloroaniline (34DCA) and p-Tert-Butylphenol (PTBP)).Methods: The proposed model consists of two steps. In the first step, a set of features is extracted from microscopic images of zebrafish embryos using the Segmentation-Based Fractal Texture Analysis (SFTA) technique. Secondly, a novel rough set-based model using Social ski-driver (SSD) is used to find a global minimal subset of features that preserves important information of the original features. In the third step, the AdaBoost classifier is used to classify an unknown sample to alive or coagulant after exposing the embryo to a toxic compound.Results: For detecting the toxicity, the proposed model is compared with (i) three deterministic rough set reduction algorithms and (ii) the PSO-based algorithm. The classification performance rate of our model was ranged from 97.1% to 99.5% and it outperformed the other algorithms.Conclusions: The results of our experiments proved that the proposed drug toxicity model is efficient for rough set-based feature selection and it obtains a high classification performance.

Detecting Lesion Characteristics of Diabetic Retinopathy Using Machine Learning and Computer Vision

One indicator of the severity of diabetic retinopathy is the existence of lesion characteristics in the eyes such as microaneurysm, hemorrhages, exudates, and neovascularization. Without proper early medical attention, this lesion could lead to blindness. Considering its importance, a system that could detect such lesions will be beneficial. This paper investigates the lesion characteristics of diabetic retinopathy from fundus images such as microaneurysm (redsmalldots), exudates, hemorrhages, and neovascularization. In this study, we present three of feature extraction methods, i.e., Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix (GLCM) and Segmentation Fractal Texture Analysis (SFTA). K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) chosen as classifiers for classifying five classes (redsmalldots, hemorrhages, hard exudates, soft exudates, and neovascularization). The data used in this research obtained from DiaretDB0 database. The experimental results show that our proposed method can detect the lesion characteristics of diabetic retinopathy with higher accuracy of 86,84% and 96% for SVM and KNN, respectively.

Hybrid Malware Classification Method Using Segmentation-Based Fractal Texture Analysis and Deep Convolution Neural Network Features

As the number of internet users increases so does the number of malicious attacks using malware. The detection of malicious code is becoming critical, and the existing approaches need to be improved. Here, we propose a feature fusion method to combine the features extracted from pre-trained AlexNet and Inception-v3 deep neural networks with features attained using segmentation-based fractal texture analysis (SFTA) of images representing the malware code. In this work, we use distinctive pre-trained models (AlexNet and Inception-V3) for feature extraction. The purpose of deep convolutional neural network (CNN) feature extraction from two models is to improve the malware classifier accuracy, because both models have characteristics and qualities to extract different features. This technique produces a fusion of features to build a multimodal representation of malicious code that can be used to classify the grayscale images, separating the malware into 25 malware classes. The features that are extracted from malware images are then classified using different variants of support vector machine (SVM), k-nearest neighbor (KNN), decision tree (DT), and other classifiers. To improve the classification results, we also adopted data augmentation based on affine image transforms. The presented method is evaluated on a Malimg malware image dataset, achieving an accuracy of 99.3%, which makes it the best among the competing approaches.

Design and Implementation of Shape and Texture Based Image Segmentation on Morphological Gradient Approach

Identifying and separating objects within an image is a significant challenge due to high object and background variability. This can be obtained through feature extraction approach. There are different ways of extracting the image features. It is based on texture, shape and colour. The present paper aims to study and analyse the various approaches for feature extraction and object recognition. This study proposed a hybrid approach, which is a combination of enhanced Fractal Texture Analysis with Layout Descriptor to overcome the obstacles in image segmentation. It is used to lessen the boundary complexity of the segmented image. First, the image is preprocessed to discard the noise and to retain the adequate details of the image in a perfect way through Adaptive Switching Median Filter. Secondly, it improves the power of the edges detected through a noise-protected edge detector. Finally, it is applied with morphological gradient technique that is a twin function of both shape and texture gradient removal for extorting the qualities of the image. In this way, the proposed methodology directly performs on the colour image which supports to enhance prediction accuracy of the object in terms of colour characteristics that offers better results than the grayscale conversion approach. Moreover, the shape feature is extracted from the preprocessed image depending on the details like compactness, rectangularity, eccentricity and moment invariants.