A way to Calibrate a Colour Texture Feature

Several colour descriptors are presented each year. The existing protocols to evaluate and compare these descriptors are restricted to the use of image databases without information about the spatio-chromatic content. In this article, we present a first answer to calibrate a colour texture descriptor. By calibration, we intend evaluate the capacity of the descriptor to discriminate the non-uniform aspect according to different scales of samples. In order to assess all the possibilities in term of spatial frequencies and colour content, we propose to use reference images based on a fractal vector colour model. Three texture features are compared from this protocol allowing to express the interest of the proposed calibration sequence.