Textures play an important role in recognition of images. This paper investigates the efficiency of performance of three texture based feature extraction methods for face recognition. The methods for comparative study are Grey Level Co_occurence Matrix (GLCM), Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Elliptical Local Binary Template (ELBT). Experiments were conducted on a facial expression database, Japa...

We participated in one task of TRECVID 2008, that is, the high-level feature extraction (HLFE). This paper presents our approaches and results on the HLFE task. We mainly focus on exploring the data imbalance learning in this year, and propose two methods for this problem: (1) adaptive borderline-SMOTE and under-sampling SVM (ABUSVM), and (2) concept category. Our approach can be divided into t...

The local binary pattern operator is an image operator which transforms an image into an array or image of integer labels describing small-scale appearance of the image. These labels or their statistics, most commonly the histogram, are then used for further image analysis. The most widely used versions of the operator are designed for monochrome still images but it has been extended also for c...

Image retrieval is one of the main topics in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition. Local descriptors are gaining more and more recognition in recent years as these descriptors are capable enough to identify the unique features, which suitably and uniquely describe any image for recognition and retrieval. One of the popular and efficient frame works for capturing texture informat...

In this paper, we propose a novel representation, called Multiscale Block Local Binary Pattern (MB-LBP), and apply it to face recognition. The Local Binary Pattern (LBP) has been proved to be effective for image representation, but it is too local to be robust. InMB-LBP, the computation is done based on average values of block subregions, instead of individual pixels. In this way, MB-LBP code p...

Feature engineering takes a very important role in writer identification which has been widely studied in the literature. Previous works have shown that the joint feature distribution of two properties can improve the performance. The joint feature distribution makes feature relationships explicit instead of roping that a trained classifier picks up a non-linear relation present in the data. In...

This paper proposes a novel method to improve the accuracy of head pose estimation. Since biologically inspired features (BIF) have been demonstrated to be both effective and efficient for many visual tasks, we argue that BIF can be applied to the problem of head pose estimation. By combining the BIF with the well-known local binary pattern (LBP) feature, we propose a novel feature descriptor n...

Article history: Received 25 October 2015 Received in revised form 28 March 2017 Accepted 13 May 2017 Available online 31 May 2017 In this paper, we propose a robust local descriptor for face recognition. It consists of two components, one based on a shearlet-decomposition and the other on local binary pattern (LBP). Shearlets can completely analyze the singular structures of piecewise smooth i...

In this paper, we present a tracking technique utilizing a simple saliency visual descriptor. Initially, we define a visual descriptor named local similarity pattern that mimics the famous texture operator local binary patterns. The key difference is that it assigns each pixel a code based on the similarity to the neighbouring pixels. Later, we simplify this descriptor to ...