Statistical image descriptors based on histograms (e.g. SIFT [1], HOG [2]) are widely used in image processing, because they are fast and simple methods with high classification performance. However, they discard the local spatial topology and thus lose discriminative information contained in the image. We discuss the relations between HOG and VNMF descriptors, i.e. structure free histograms ve...

This paper introduces several novel Gabor-based local, shape and color features for image classification. First, a new Gabor-HOG (GHOG) descriptor is proposed for image feature extraction by concatenating the Histograms of Oriented Gradients (HOG) of all the local Gabor filtered images. The GHOG descriptor is then further assessed in six different color spaces to measure classification performa...

Orthogonal moment functions based on Tchebichef polynomials have found several applications in the eld of image analysis because of their superior feature representation capabilities. Local features represented by such moments could also be used in the design of e cient texture descriptors. This chapter introduces a novel method of constructing feature vectors from orthonormal Tchebichef moment...

Recent innovations in training deep convolutional neural network (ConvNet) models have motivated the design of new methods to automatically learn local image descriptors. The latest deep ConvNets proposed for this task consist of a siamese network that is trained by penalising misclassification of pairs of local image patches. Current results from machine learning show that replacing this siame...

We present a framework for automatic and accurate multiple detection of objects of interest from images using hybrid image descriptors. The proposed framework combines a powerful segmentation algorithm with a hybrid descriptor. The hybrid descriptor is composed by color histograms and several Local Binary Patterns based descriptors. The proposed framework involves two main steps. The first one ...

In this paper a combined statistical and structural approach has been employed for texture representation. A set of Texture Primitives has been suggested. These primitives are basically tested for the presence of texture by conducting a suitable statistical test called Nair’s test. The set of universal primitives are labeled as local descriptor and the frequency of occurrences of these primitiv...

In the medical field, images are increasingly used to facilitate diagnosis of diseases. These images are stored in multimedia databases accompanied by doctor’s prescriptions and other information related to patients. Search for medical images has become for clinical applications an essential tool to bring effective aid in diagnosis. Content Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) is one of the possible so...