B-scan ultrasound provides a non-invasive low-cost imaging solution to primary care diagnostics. The inherent speckle noise in the images produced by this technique introduces uncertainty in the representation of their textural characteristics. To cope with the uncertainty, we propose a novel fuzzy feature extraction method to encode local texture. The proposed method extends the Local Binary P...

Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is invariant to the monotonic changes in the grey scale domain. This property enables LBP to present a texture descriptor that can be useful in applications dealing with the local illumination changes. However, the existing versions of LBP are not able to handle image illumination changes, especially in outdoor environments. These non-patterned illumination changes di...

Local Binary Patterns (LBP) have been well exploited for facial image analysis recently. In the existing work, the LBP histograms are extracted from local facial regions, and used as a whole for the regional description. However, not all bins in the LBP histogram are necessary to be useful for facial representation. In this paper, we propose to learn discriminative LBP-Histogram (LBPH) bins for...

Local binary pattern (LBP) operators have become commonly used texture descriptors in recent years. Several new LBP-based descriptors have been proposed, of which some aim at improving robustness to noise. To do this, the thresholding and encoding schemes used in the descriptors are modified. In this article, the robustness to noise for the eight following LBP-based descriptors are evaluated; i...

Features such as Local Binary Patterns (LBP) and Local Ternary Patterns (LTP) have been very successful in a number of areas including texture analysis, face recognition and object detection. They are based on the idea that small patterns of qualitative local gray-level differences contain a great deal of information about higher-level image content. Existing local pattern features use hand-spe...

Recent developments in face analysis showed that local binary patterns (LBP) provide excellent results in representing faces. LBP is by definition a purely gray-scale invariant texture operator, codifying only the facial patterns while ignoring the magnitude of gray level differences (i.e. contrast). However, pattern information is independent of the gray scale, whereas contrast is not. On the ...

Received Nov 3, 2016 Revised Jan 7, 2017 Accepted Feb 16, 2017 Retrieval of similar images from large dataset of brain images across patients would help the experts in the decision diagnosis process of diseases. Generally used feature extraction methods are color, texture and shape. In medical images texture and shape features are most efficient. Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) and Local ...

In this paper, a new codification of Local Binary Patterns (LBP) is given using graph pyramids. The LBP code characterizes the topological category (local max, min, slope, saddle) of the gray level landscape around the center region. Given a 2D grayscale image I, our goal is to obtain a simplified image which can be seen as “minimal” representation in terms of topological characterization of I....

Face recognition has received a great deal of attention from the scientific and industrial communities over the past several decades owing to its wide range of applications in information security and access control, law enforcement, surveillance and more generally image understanding. In this paper we combine KLDA(combination of LBP and GABOR features) with gradient face features(which are mor...

The ever-increasing popularity of intelligent image search and video retrieval warrants a comprehensive study of the major feature representation and extraction methods often applied in image search and video retrieval. Towards that end, this chapter reviews some representative feature representation and extraction approaches, such as the Spatial Pyramid Matching (SPM), the soft assignment codi...