1. An automated, computerized method for processing an image, comprising the steps of: a computer executing the following steps: converting a color band representation of each pixel in the image to a texton representation, the converting to a texton representation being carried out by generating a two band, texton label, texton histogram label representation for each pixel in the image, wherein the texton label is generated by a first clustering process and represents a texture primitive of the texture in the image and the texton histogram label is generated by a second clustering process and represents a spatial distribution of the texture primitive within the image; and utilizing the texton representation to identify homogeneous tokens in the image by identifying pixels that have the same two band, texton label, texton histogram label representation.