We can restate the problem of texture boundary detection in the context
of pattern recognition. This provides us with a rich set of tools
and methods to verify and analyze the results. This can be achieved
by maximization of the difference between the textures on both sides
of the potential boundary along the scanned observations vector .
This yields the best estimate of the boundary
which
maximizes
the distance between the texture on both sides, i.e.
.
In the case where we look for the boundary of a known texture
,
this maximization should be subject to the constrain that
is minimum.