SELECTING THE IMPORTANT FEATURES TO CLASSIFY THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL FRAGMENTS BY USING STATISTICAL TOOLS

Feature selection, the process of representing an object in the least dimensions, is one of the most important and difficult steps in pattern recognition. Therefore, meticulous selection of important features for classification is required. In this study, we propose a method based on Multidimensional Scaling (MDS) to reduce the dimensions of ancient ceramic fragment features. This method focuses on selecting the most important features based on the density of the grayscale image and texture. Finally, we use the Euclidean distance equation to classify objects into similar groups. With a database containing more than 300 images, the experiment achieved an impressive 90% success rate in accurately categorizing fragments as either similar or non-similar. These results demonstrate the effectiveness and promise of the proposed approach for image classification tasks, emphasizing the potential of statistical methods and image processing techniques for addressing complex computer vision challenges.