“…For simplicity, in this paper we assume that g(m,n) ¼ 0, that is, we treat the deterministic component v(m,n) as composed of only the harmonic field, i.e., v(m,n) ¼ h(m,n). According to this assumption, we confine our discussion to textures that possess periodic features [28], and not directional ones. Experiments with many textures from [7,8] reveal that this assumption is not very restrictive, and in fact enables us to simply treat a wide variety of textures.…”