AN IMPROVED LOCAL BINARY PATTERN OPERATOR FOR TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION

Based on pattern uniformity measure and the number of ones in the Local Binary Pattern (LBP) codes, this paper proposes an Improved Local Binary Pattern (ILBP) operator to describe local image texture more effectively. The ILBP operator discovers an important group of basic primitives such as lines, T-junctions, and cross-intersections, which are ignored by uniform LBP operator. Such local primitives are as crucial as those represented by uniform patterns for recognition tasks. The resulting ILBP feature is more discriminative than traditional LBP feature although they are both invariant in terms of monotonic gray-scale variation and rotation transformation.