In this paper, we propose a simple and robust local descriptor, called the robust local binary pattern (RLBP). The local binary pattern (LBP) works very successfully in many domains, such as texture classification, human detection and face recognition. However, an issue of LBP is that it is not so robust to the noise present in the image. We improve the robustness of LBP by changing the coding ...

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...

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...

Face recognition approaches have traditionally focused on direct comparisons between aligned images, e.g. using pixel values or local image features. Such comparisons become prohibitively difficult when comparing faces across extreme differences in pose, illumination and expression. The goal of this work is to develop a face-similarity measure that is largely invariant to these differences. We ...

Local feature detection and description have gained a lot of interest in recent years since photometric descriptors computed for interest regions have proven to be very successful in many applications. In this paper, we propose a novel interest region descriptor which combines the strengths of the well-known SIFT descriptor and the LBP texture operator. It is called the center-symmetric local b...

Much work has been done on software reuse “in the small” – objects, subroutines, and components. Relatively little work on very large-grained reuse is available in the literature. Such reuse might include reusing an entire automated teller machine (ATM) software and hardware system for banks across multiple continents; and reusing infrastructure across Internet, teller systems, and ATM systems,...

The major clades of vertebrates differ dramatically in their current species richness, from 2 to more than 32,000 species each, but the causes of this variation remain poorly understood. For example, a previous study noted that vertebrate clades differ in their diversification rates, but did not explain why they differ. Using a time-calibrated phylogeny and phylogenetic comparative methods, I s...

Graphs are everywhere: social networks, the World Wide Web, biological networks, and many more. The sizes of graphs are growing at unprecedented rate, spanning millions and billions of nodes and edges. What are the patterns in large graphs, spanning Giga, Tera, and heading toward Peta bytes? What are the best tools, and how can they help us solve graph mining problems? How do we scale up algori...

Sulci are surface folds commonly seen in strained soft elastomers and form via a strongly subcritical, yet scale-free, instability. Treating the threshold for nonlinear instability as a nonlinear critical point, we explain the nature of sulcus patterns in terms of the scale and translation symmetries which are broken by the formation of an isolated, small sulcus. Our perturbative theory and sim...