In order to segment a distribution of points into partial areas with predetermined
structural elements, a feature vector ({right arrow over (x)}i) whose
components are determined based on several scaling factors is ascertained for each
point ({right arrow over (p)}i); the accompanying feature vectors ({right
arrow over (p)}il) are determined for a predetermined number
of reference points ({right arrow over (p)}il) for which
the respective allocation to one of the structural elements is given, and texture
classes each corresponding to the underlying structural elements are formed out
of the feature vectors of the reference points; a distance to each of the texture
classes is determined for all remaining points ({right arrow over (p)}iu)
of the point distribution that are not reference points ({right arrow over (p)}iu);
and the partial areas of the segmentation are formed out of the reference points
respectively belonging to a texture class and the allocated points.
