Global and Local Oriented Edge Magnitude Patterns for Texture Classification
Jun Dong, Xue Yuan, Fanlun Xiong · International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence · 2016
In this paper, we propose a gray-scale texture descriptor, name the global and local oriented edge magnitude patterns (GLOEMP), for texture classification. GLOEMP is a framework, which is able to effectively combine local texture, global structure information and contrast of texture images. In GLOEMP, the principal orientation is determined by Histogram of Gradient (HOG) feature, then each direction is respectively shown in detail by a local binary patterns (LBP) occurrence histogram. Due to the fact that GLOEMP characterizes image information across different directions, it contains very abundant information. The global-level rotation compensation method is proposed, which shifts the principal orientation of the HOG to the first position, thus allowing GLOEMP to be robust to rotations. In addition, gradient magnitudes are used as weights to add to the histogram, making GLOEMP robust to lighting variances as well, and it also possesses a strong ability to express edge information. The experimental results obtained from the representative databases demonstrate that the proposed GLOEMP framework is capable of achieving significant improvement, in some cases reaching classification accuracy of 10% higher than over the traditional rotation invariant LBP method.