TY - JOUR KW - Color and texture features KW - Edge information KW - Edge similarities KW - Feature space KW - Image analysis KW - Image features KW - Intangible cultural heritages KW - Textures KW - Thangka KW - Tibetans KW - edge KW - highlight and shadow KW - image Feature AU - Zhenjiang Li AU - Weilan Wang AB - Thangka is a representative of Tibetan religion and culture, and it is a typical kind of intangible cultural heritage also. The paper studies the similarities and differences between carved Thangka and embroidered Thangka images based on highlight, shadow and edge information. Three novel features are proposed, Consistency of Illumination Direction (CID), Distribution of Highlight and Shadow near Edge (DHSE) and Edge Similarity under Different Channels (ESDC), and the distribution of Tangka image samples in these feature spaces is analyzed. Experiments and analysis show that compared with the color and texture features, the features proposed in this paper have strong expression ability in distinguishing two kinds of Thangka images. DO - 10.3233/JCM-204506 M1 - 2 N1 - Publisher: IOS Press BV N2 - Thangka is a representative of Tibetan religion and culture, and it is a typical kind of intangible cultural heritage also. The paper studies the similarities and differences between carved Thangka and embroidered Thangka images based on highlight, shadow and edge information. Three novel features are proposed, Consistency of Illumination Direction (CID), Distribution of Highlight and Shadow near Edge (DHSE) and Edge Similarity under Different Channels (ESDC), and the distribution of Tangka image samples in these feature spaces is analyzed. Experiments and analysis show that compared with the color and texture features, the features proposed in this paper have strong expression ability in distinguishing two kinds of Thangka images. SP - 367 EP - 381 TI - Study of image features between carved Thangka and embroidered Thangka UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85105706554&doi=10.3233%2fJCM-204506&partnerID=40&md5=74f42fd0cc73d4b406cb9d644a3932cf VL - 21 SN - 14727978 (ISSN) ER -