Tensor scale is a morphometric parameter that unifies the representation of local structure thickness, orientation, and anisotropy, which can be used in several computer vision and image processing tasks. In this article, we exploit this concept for binary images and propose a shape salience detector and a shape descriptor – Tensor Scale Descriptor with Influence Zones. It also introduces a rob...

This paper introduces a shape descriptor based on a combination of topological image analysis and texture information. Critical points of a shape’s skeleton are determined first. The shape is described according to persistence of the local topology at these critical points over a range of scales. The local topology over scale-space is derived using the local binary pattern texture operator with...

In this paper, we propose a novel local image descriptor DoP which is termed as the difference of images represented by polynomials in different degrees. Once an interest point/region is extracted by a common image detector such as Harris corner, our DoP descriptor is able to characterize the interest point/region with high distinctiveness, compactness, and robustness to viewpoint change, image...

Digital image processing techniques are useful in abnormality detection in mammogram images. Recently, texture based image segmentation of mammogram images has become popular due to its better precision and accuracy. Local Binary Pattern has been a recently proposed texture descriptor which attracted the research community rigorously towards texture based analysis of digital images. Many textur...

In this article, we develop a novel method for the detection of vineyard parcels in agricultural landscapes based on very high resolution (VHR) optical remote sensing images. Our objective is to perform texture-based image retrieval and supervised classification algorithms. To do that, the local textural and structural features inside each image are taken into account to measure its similarity ...

Pyramid Histogram of Multi-scale Block Local Binary Pattern (PH-MBLBP) descriptor for recognizing scene categories, is presented in this paper. We show that scene categorization, especially for indoor and outdoor environments, requires its visual descriptor to process properties that are different from other vision domains (e.g., SIFT descriptor used for object categorization). Our proposed PH-...

A novel local structure descriptor (LSD) for color image retrieval is proposed in this paper. Local structures are defined based on a similarity of edge orientation, and LSD is constructed using the underlying colors in local structures with similar edge direction. LSD can effectively combine color, texture and shape as a whole for image retrieval. LSH integrates the advantages of both statisti...

This paper investigate a binary local image descriptor for Augmented Reality (AR) applications. Recently, various fields are benefit from AR. This technique can enhance the real environment by inserting virtual objects generated by computer. Temporal coherence between virtual and real objects must be ensure in AR system realization. In this paper, object recognition based on extracted natural f...

This paper proposes a novel approach using two-dimensional principal component analysis (2D-PCA) and local direction descriptor for face recognition. The proposed method utilizes the transformed image obtained from local direction descriptor as the direct input image of 2D-PCA algorithms. The performance comparison was performed using principal component analysis (PCA) and Gabor-wavelets based ...

Local image descriptors are generally designed for describing all possible image patches. Such patches may be subject to complex variations in appearance due to incidental object, scene and recording conditions. Because of this, a single-best descriptor for accurate image representation under all conditions does not exist. Therefore, we propose to automatically select from a pool of descriptors...