Modified Hausdorff Fractal Dimension (MHFD)
This is an incremental improvement for image analysis applications.
The authors tackled the problem of estimating complexity for non-fractal images by developing a modified Hausdorff fractal dimension, which showed promising performance in evaluations.
The Hausdorff fractal dimension has been a fast-to-calculate method to estimate complexity of fractal shapes. In this work, a modified version of this fractal dimension is presented in order to make it more robust when applied in estimating complexity of non-fractal images. The modified Hausdorff fractal dimension stands on two features that weaken the requirement of presence of a shape and also reduce the impact of the noise possibly presented in the input image. The new algorithm has been evaluated on a set of images of different character with promising performance.