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Multi-structure local binary patterns for texture classification

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Recently, the local binary patterns (LBP) have been widely used in the texture classification. The LBP methods obtain the binary pattern by comparing the gray scales of pixels on a small circular region with the gray scale of their central pixel. The conventional LBP methods only describe microstructures of texture images, such as edges, corners, spots and so on, although many of them show good performances on the texture classification. This situation still could not be changed, even though the multi-resolution analysis technique is adopted by LBP methods. Moreover, the circular sampling region limits the ability of the conventional LBP methods in describing anisotropic features. In this paper, we change the shape of sampling region and get an extended LBP operator. And a multi-structure local binary pattern (Ms-LBP) operator is achieved by executing the extended LBP operator on different layers of an image pyramid. Thus, the proposed method is simple yet efficient to describe four types of structures: isotropic microstructure, isotropic macrostructure, anisotropic microstructure and anisotropic macrostructure. We demonstrate the performance of our method on two public texture databases: the Outex and the CUReT. The experimental results show the advantages of the proposed method.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank MVG and VGG for sharing the LBP code and the VZ_MR8 code, respectively. The authors also thank Zhenhua Guo, Lei Zhang and David Zhang for sharing the source code of LBPV and CLBP. This work was supported by the Chinese National 863 Grand No. 2009AA12Z109. The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their useful suggestions. Any researchers can e-mail us to get the code of the proposed method for studying.

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    Yonggang He, Nong Sang & Changxin Gao

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He, Y., Sang, N. & Gao, C. Multi-structure local binary patterns for texture classification. Pattern Anal Applic 16, 595–607 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10044-011-0264-4

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