However, the advantage to the texture approach is it's abstracted from a lot of other information. You don't want a classifier to say sofa, when it's a picture of a person on a sofa.
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anyway it does work perfectly if that's what you need, but most proponent are trying to use deep nn to classify 'as good as humans do'
However, the advantage to the texture approach is it's abstracted from a lot of other information. You don't want a classifier to say sofa, when it's a picture of a person on a sofa.