Measuring Naturalness and Complexity Using the Fractal Dimensions of Landscape Photographs

Agnes Patuano

doi:10.14627/537642035

Measuring Naturalness and Complexity Using the Fractal Dimensions of Landscape Photographs

Agnes Patuano

Edinburgh College of Art

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Abstract

The fractal analysis of images is a common technique to study natural processes. Its application to landscape photographs, however, requires pre-processing which can produce widely different results. Using two categories of landscape scenes with different levels of vegetation, five types of image segmentation were compared and the resulting structures analysed with the box-counting method. The fractal dimensions estimated were compared and found to characterize either the naturalness or the complexity of the landscape scenes. This demonstrates the potential of fractal analysis for landscape perception studies, and offers a set of reliable methods to estimate the fractal dimensions of landscape photographs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	JoDLA
Subtitle of host publication	Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture
Editors	Erich Buhmann, Stephen Ervin, Sigrid Hehl-Lange, James Palmer
Place of Publication	Berlin/Offenbach
Publisher	Wichmann Verlag im VDE VERLAG GMBH
Pages	328-335
Volume	3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-87907-642-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14627/537642035
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	Digital Landscape Architecture Conference 2018: Expanding the boundaries: Landscape Architecture in a Big Data world - Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf/University of Applied Sciences/Munich-Freising, Germany Duration: 30 May 2018 → 2 Jun 2018 http://www.kolleg.loel.hs-anhalt.de/landschaftsinformatik/546.html

Publication series

Name	Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture
Publisher	Wichmann Verlag im VDE VERLAG GMBH
ISSN (Print)	2367-4253
ISSN (Electronic)	2511-624X

Conference

Conference	Digital Landscape Architecture Conference 2018
Country/Territory	Germany
Period	30/05/18 → 2/06/18
Internet address	http://www.kolleg.loel.hs-anhalt.de/landschaftsinformatik/546.html

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1 Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Investigating Landscape Preference Using Fractal Geometry
Patuano, A., 2019, Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture. Buhmann, E., Ervin, S., Hehl-Lange, S. & Palmer, J. (eds.). Berlin/Offenbach: VDE Verlag, Vol. 4. p. 76-83 8 p. (Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture; vol. 4).
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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1 Oral presentation

Measuring Naturalness and Complexity Using the Fractal Dimensions of Landscape Photographs
Patuano, A. (Contributor)
2018
Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Oral presentation

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Patuano, A 2018, Measuring Naturalness and Complexity Using the Fractal Dimensions of Landscape Photographs. in E Buhmann, S Ervin, S Hehl-Lange & J Palmer (eds), JoDLA: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture. vol. 3, Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture, Wichmann Verlag im VDE VERLAG GMBH, Berlin/Offenbach, pp. 328-335, Digital Landscape Architecture Conference 2018, Germany, 30/05/18. https://doi.org/10.14627/537642035

Measuring Naturalness and Complexity Using the Fractal Dimensions of Landscape Photographs. / Patuano, Agnes.
JoDLA: Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture. ed. / Erich Buhmann; Stephen Ervin; Sigrid Hehl-Lange; James Palmer. Vol. 3 Berlin/Offenbach: Wichmann Verlag im VDE VERLAG GMBH, 2018. p. 328-335 (Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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Measuring Naturalness and Complexity Using the Fractal Dimensions of Landscape Photographs

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