基于局部边缘二值模式的图像检索

在定义局部边缘的基础上提出了局部边缘二值模式(LEBP),并结合Gabor滤波器将其扩展到多分辨率LEBP(MLEBP)。对传统的中心对称局部二值模式(CS-LBP)和方向局部二值模式(D-LBP)进行了改进,新描述符在不增加计算复杂度和提高特征维数的基础上,进一步融入了局部边缘信息。为验证新描述符的性能,采用3个通用的纹理图像库进行图像检索实验。结果表明,结合本文方法,明显提高了传统描述符的分辨能力。     

基于局部四值模式的人脸识别

局部二值模式(LBP)作为经典的纹理特征描述方法广泛应用于纹理分类和人脸识别等领域。然而现有相关算法仅利用周围一个圆形邻域的信息,没有充分利用周围邻域的信息。为此,提出一种利用不同圆形邻域之间的微分结构信息进行联合描述的特征描述子,从而能够更加充分地利用邻域信息。由于所提方法在圆形邻域上每个坐标处有4种不同可能的取值情况,因此将这种模型称为局部四值模式(LQP)。在通用的人脸识别数据库FERET上的大量实验证明了所提算法的有效性。     

基于凹凸局部二值模式的纹理图像分类

针对传统局部二值模式(LBP)及其扩展方法往往会将具有不同视觉特征的局部邻域赋予相同二值模式值的问题,提出了一种新的凹-凸LBP划分方法。首先通过选择最优参数将具有相同二值模式值的邻域划分为凹凸两类,然后分别统计每类特征并组合在一起进行纹理分类。为验证新方法的性能,实验采用3个在纹理分析领域广泛应用的图像库进行分类实验,结果表明,本文方法明显提高了传统LBP方法的分辨能力。     

基于特征融合的粒子滤波目标跟踪新方法

针对传统粒子滤波(PF)算法采用单一颜色特征建模 跟踪目标性能差的缺陷,提出一种颜色特征与纹理特 征相融合的PF目标跟踪新算法。首先,采用一种具有抗噪声和保护纹理边缘的全局中值二值 模式 (GMBP)纹理算子,对模板图像进行局部差绝对值处理,得到幅 值序列模板,将幅值序列模板内的中值作为模板的阈值,与模板邻域比较获得新的纹理图像 ;然后,与 具有光照不变特性的局部二值模式(LBP)纹理算子结合,形成一种(GMLBP)新的纹理描述算子 。最后,分别计算GMLBP纹理特征粒子权值和HSV颜色特征粒子权 值,并依据权值大小确定融合系数,对纹理特征粒子权值和颜色特征粒子权值进行线 性融合,再对融合后粒子权值进行归一化处理,从而得到目标位置状态的最终估计值。对比 实验结果表明, 相对于单一颜色特征的目标跟踪算法,所提算法捕捉目标位置准确且具有更低的平均跟踪误 差,其平均误差降低了近2倍。     

一种基于二维局部二值模式的纹理图像分类方法

局部二值模式（Local Binary Pattern,LBP）在纹理分类中受到越来越多的关注,传统的基于局部二值模式的图像识别方法在LBP直方图统计时仅仅考虑到LBP模式值本身的数量统计,却忽略了模式值之间的相关性.针对这一问题,本文提出一种二维局部二值模式（Two Dimensional Local Binary Pattern,2DLBP）方法,并用于纹理图像识别.首先以旋转不变均匀LBP特征图为基础,引入滑动窗口和LBP模式对的概念,统计LBP模式图的上下文信息,构造出2DLBP特征;然后改变LBP中的半径参数,构造图像的多分辨率2DLBP特征,并利用支持向量机（SVM）的分类方法进行纹理分类;最后选取Brodatz、CUReT、UIUC、FMD四个公开纹理库分别进行纹理分类测试.理论验证表明该方法具有良好的通用性,可以与LBP的其他变型结合成为新的图像特征构造方法.同时,实验结果表明,本文提出方法具有较好的纹理图像分类能力.     

Expert content-based image retrieval system using robust local patterns

A new image indexing and retrieval algorithm for content based image retrieval is proposed in this paper. The local region of the image is represented by making the use of local difference operator (LDO), separating it into two components i.e. sign and magnitude. The sign LBP operator (S_LBP) is a generalized LBP operator. The magnitude LBP (M_LBP) operator is calculated using the magnitude of LDO. A robust LBP (RLBP) operator is presented employing robust S_LBP and robust M_LBP. Further, the combination of Gabor transform and RLBP operator has also been presented. The robustness is established by conducting four experiments on different image database i.e. Corel 1000 (DB1), Brodatz texture database (DB2) and MIT VisTex database (DB3) under different lighting (illumination) and noise conditions. Investigations reveal a promising achievement of the technique presented when compared to S_LBP and other existing transform domain techniques in terms of their evaluation measures.     

Local maximum edge binary patterns: A new descriptor for image retrieval and object tracking

A new algorithm meant for content based image retrieval (CBIR) and object tracking applications is presented in this paper. The local region of image is represented by local maximum edge binary patterns (LMEBP), which are evaluated by taking into consideration the magnitude of local difference between the center pixel and its neighbors. This LMEBP differs from the existing LBP in a manner that it extracts the information based on distribution of edges in an image. Further, the effectiveness of our algorithm is confirmed by combining it with Gabor transform. Four experiments have been carried out for proving the worth of our algorithm. Out of which three are meant for CBIR and one for object tracking. It is further mentioned that the database considered for first three experiments are Brodatz texture database (DB1), MIT VisTex database (DB2), rotated Brodatz database (DB3) and the fourth contains three observations. The results after being investigated show a significant improvement in terms of their evaluation measures as compared to LBP and other existing transform domain techniques.     

MRI and CT image indexing and retrieval using local mesh peak valley edge patterns

In this paper, a new pattern based feature, local mesh peak valley edge pattern (LMePVEP) is proposed for biomedical image indexing and retrieval. The standard LBP extracts the gray scale relationship between the center pixel and its surrounding neighbors in an image. Whereas the proposed method extracts the gray scale relationship among the neighbors for a given center pixel in an image. The relations among the neighbors are peak/valley edges which are obtained by performing the first-order derivative. The performance of the proposed method (LMePVEP) is tested by conducting two experiments on two benchmark biomedical databases. Further, it is mentioned that the databases used for experiments are OASIS−MRI database which is the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) database and VIA/I–ELCAP-CT database which includes region of interest computer tomography (CT) images. The results after being investigated show a significant improvement in terms average retrieval precision (ARP) and average retrieval rate (ARR) as compared to LBP and LBP variant features.     

基于局部模式的加权估计纹理分析在人脸识别中的应用

传统的纹理分析方法仅以每个脸部区域的相对贡献来标记全局相似度,针对这种以局部表示全局而导致不能很好地进行特征提取的问题,提出了基于局部模式的加权估计纹理分析(Weighting Estimation for Texture Analysis, WETA)方法。首先使用局部二值模式（Local Binary Pattern, LBP）或者局部相位量化（Local Phase Quantization, LPQ）对图像进行纹理编码,并将其划分成各个大小相等且不重叠的局部小块;然后从相似空间中提取出最具识别力的坐标轴,利用编码与数据库的不同组合估算出权值;最后,通过权值优化给出了最佳解决方案,并采用相似性度量距离转换完成人脸的识别。在FERET和ORL两大通用人脸数据库上的实验验证了所提方法的有效性,实验结果表明,与最先进的纹理方法相比,所提方法取得了更好的识别性能。     

An improved LBP algorithm for texture and face classification

Local Binary Pattern (LBP) has achieved great success in texture classification due to its accuracy and efficiency. Traditional LBP method encodes local features by binarying the difference in local neighborhood and then represents a given image using the histogram of the binary patterns. However, it ignores the directional statistical information. In this paper, some directional statistical features—including the mean and standard deviation of the local absolute difference—are integrated into the feature extraction to improve the classification ability of the extracted features. In order to reduce estimation errors of the local absolute difference, we further utilize the least square estimate technique to optimize the weight and minimize the local absolute difference, which leads to more stable directional features. In addition, a novel rotation invariant texture classification approach is presented. Experimental results on several texture and face datasets show that the proposed approach significantly improves the classification accuracy of the traditional LBP.     

Content based image indexing and retrieval using directional local extrema and magnitude patterns

In this paper, we integrate the concept of directional local extremas and their magnitude based patterns for content based image indexing and retrieval. The standard ditectional local extrama pattern (DLEP) extracts the directional edge information based on local extrema in 0°, 45°, 90°, and 135° directions in an image. However, they are not considering the magnitudes of local extremas. The proposed method integrates these two concepts for better retrieval performance. The sign DLEP (SDLEP) operator is a generalized DLEP operator and magnitude DLEP (MDLEP) operator is calculated using magnitudes of local extremas. The performance of the proposed method is compared with DLEP, local binary patterns (LBPs), block-based LBP (BLK_LBP), center-symmetric local binary pattern (CS-LBP), local edge patterns for segmentation (LEPSEG) and local edge patterns for image retrieval (LEPINV) methods by conducting two experiments on benchmark databases, viz. Corel-5K and Corel-10K databases. The results after being investigated show a significant improvement in terms of their evaluation measures as compared to other existing methods on respective databases.