Local maximum edge binary patterns: A new descriptor for image retrieval and object tracking

A new algorithm meant for content based image retrieval (CBIR) and object tracking applications is presented in this paper. The local region of image is represented by local maximum edge binary patterns (LMEBP), which are evaluated by taking into consideration the magnitude of local difference between the center pixel and its neighbors. This LMEBP differs from the existing LBP in a manner that it extracts the information based on distribution of edges in an image. Further, the effectiveness of our algorithm is confirmed by combining it with Gabor transform. Four experiments have been carried out for proving the worth of our algorithm. Out of which three are meant for CBIR and one for object tracking. It is further mentioned that the database considered for first three experiments are Brodatz texture database (DB1), MIT VisTex database (DB2), rotated Brodatz database (DB3) and the fourth contains three observations. The results after being investigated show a significant improvement in terms of their evaluation measures as compared to LBP and other existing transform domain techniques.     

Content based image indexing and retrieval using directional local extrema and magnitude patterns

In this paper, we integrate the concept of directional local extremas and their magnitude based patterns for content based image indexing and retrieval. The standard ditectional local extrama pattern (DLEP) extracts the directional edge information based on local extrema in 0°, 45°, 90°, and 135° directions in an image. However, they are not considering the magnitudes of local extremas. The proposed method integrates these two concepts for better retrieval performance. The sign DLEP (SDLEP) operator is a generalized DLEP operator and magnitude DLEP (MDLEP) operator is calculated using magnitudes of local extremas. The performance of the proposed method is compared with DLEP, local binary patterns (LBPs), block-based LBP (BLK_LBP), center-symmetric local binary pattern (CS-LBP), local edge patterns for segmentation (LEPSEG) and local edge patterns for image retrieval (LEPINV) methods by conducting two experiments on benchmark databases, viz. Corel-5K and Corel-10K databases. The results after being investigated show a significant improvement in terms of their evaluation measures as compared to other existing methods on respective databases.     

Local tetra patterns: a new feature descriptor for content-based image retrieval

In this paper, we propose a novel image indexing and retrieval algorithm using local tetra patterns (LTrPs) for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). The standard local binary pattern (LBP) and local ternary pattern (LTP) encode the relationship between the referenced pixel and its surrounding neighbors by computing gray-level difference. The proposed method encodes the relationship between the referenced pixel and its neighbors, based on the directions that are calculated using the first-order derivatives in vertical and horizontal directions. In addition, we propose a generic strategy to compute nth-order LTrP using (n - 1)th-order horizontal and vertical derivatives for efficient CBIR and analyze the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm by combining it with the Gabor transform. The performance of the proposed method is compared with the LBP, the local derivative patterns, and the LTP based on the results obtained using benchmark image databases viz., Corel 1000 database (DB1), Brodatz texture database (DB2), and MIT VisTex database (DB3). Performance analysis shows that the proposed method improves the retrieval result from 70.34%/44.9% to 75.9%/48.7% in terms of average precision/average recall on database DB1, and from 79.97% to 85.30% and 82.23% to 90.02% in terms of average retrieval rate on databases DB2 and DB3, respectively, as compared with the standard LBP.     

A novel local octa-pattern feature descriptor for image retrieval

The local tetra patterns (LTrPs) gives four-directional information and ignores the diagonal pixel information, thereby affecting the retrieved image efficiency. In the present work, a novel retrieval approach has been proposed using local octa-patterns (LOcPs) for content-based image indexing and retrieval. The proposed approach encodes the center pixel directional information with its eight adjacent neighbors, from the directions that are computed using the first-order derivatives. Also the nth-order LOcP is computed using \((n-1)\)th-order local direction variations. In addition, the performance of the developed method by combining it with the Gabor transform has been analyzed. The performance of the proposed technique has been compared to existing techniques like LBP, LTP, LDP, and LTrP on Corel-1000 database (DB1) and Describable Textures Dataset (DB2). The performance observed shows that the developed method improves the retrieval parameters from 75.9%/77.13% to 79.4%/81.5% in the form of average precision on DB1/DB2 databases.     

MRI and CT image indexing and retrieval using local mesh peak valley edge patterns

In this paper, a new pattern based feature, local mesh peak valley edge pattern (LMePVEP) is proposed for biomedical image indexing and retrieval. The standard LBP extracts the gray scale relationship between the center pixel and its surrounding neighbors in an image. Whereas the proposed method extracts the gray scale relationship among the neighbors for a given center pixel in an image. The relations among the neighbors are peak/valley edges which are obtained by performing the first-order derivative. The performance of the proposed method (LMePVEP) is tested by conducting two experiments on two benchmark biomedical databases. Further, it is mentioned that the databases used for experiments are OASIS−MRI database which is the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) database and VIA/I–ELCAP-CT database which includes region of interest computer tomography (CT) images. The results after being investigated show a significant improvement in terms average retrieval precision (ARP) and average retrieval rate (ARR) as compared to LBP and LBP variant features.     

Center symmetric local binary co-occurrence pattern for texture,face and bio-medical image retrieval

Content based image retrieval is a common problem for a large image database. Many methods have been proposed for image retrieval for some particular type of datasets. In the proposed work, a new image retrieval technique has been introduced. This technique is useful for different kind of dataset. In the proposed method, center symmetric local binary pattern has been extracted from the original image to obtain the local information. Co-occurrence of pixel pairs in local pattern map have been observed in different directions and distances using gray level co-occurrence matrix. Earlier methods have utilized histogram to extract the frequency information of local pattern map but co-occurrence of pixel pairs is more robust than frequency of patterns. The proposed method is tested on three different category of images, i.e., texture, face and medical image database and compared with typical state-of-the-art local patterns.     

复杂光照条件下的多姿状鲁棒性人脸识别方法

为改善复杂光照条件下的多姿状鲁棒性人脸识别的效果,提出了小波变换与LBP的多姿状鲁棒性人脸识别方法。通过二维离散小波变换对人脸图像进行二级小波分解提取到低频特征信息分量,并以重构初始图像的方式实现降噪滤波处理,滤除低频光照分量后完成复杂光照补偿;继续分解复杂光照补偿后的图像,采用LBP算子对子图像的鲁棒性部分纹理特征进行描述后,提取出人脸图像各子图像的直方图特征并连接,得到人脸LBP纹理特征,通过统计法运算该特征距离,并通过K近邻分类器实现人脸特征分类识别。以Yale-B与AR人脸库为测试对象,结果表明,所研究方法对复杂光照鲁棒性较强,识别人脸的准确率与效率较高,整体识别效果较好。     

Texture Recognition and Image Retrieval Using Gradient Indexing

Our starting point is gradient indexing, the characterization of texture by a feature vector that comprises a histogram derived from the image gradient field. We investigate the use of gradient indexing for texture recognition and image retrieval. We find that gradient indexing is a robust measure with respect to the number of bins and to the choice of the gradient operator. We also find that the gradient direction and magnitude are equally effective in recognizing different textures. Furthermore, a variant of gradient indexing called local activity spectrum is proposed and shown to have improved performance. Local activity spectrum is employed in an image retrieval system as the texture statistic. The retrieval system is based on a segmentation technique employing a distance measure called Sum of Minimum Distance. This system enables content-based retrieval of database images from templates of arbitrary size.     

基于局部边缘二值模式的图像检索

在定义局部边缘的基础上提出了局部边缘二值模式(LEBP),并结合Gabor滤波器将其扩展到多分辨率LEBP(MLEBP)。对传统的中心对称局部二值模式(CS-LBP)和方向局部二值模式(D-LBP)进行了改进,新描述符在不增加计算复杂度和提高特征维数的基础上,进一步融入了局部边缘信息。为验证新描述符的性能,采用3个通用的纹理图像库进行图像检索实验。结果表明,结合本文方法,明显提高了传统描述符的分辨能力。     

基于兴趣目标的图像检索

当前图像检索算法通常针对整体图像提取特征以完成检索任务.然而,在很多情况下用户只会关注图像的一部分,即他们的兴趣目标.此时,从整体图像提取的特征一部分是有效的,另一部分则是无效的且会对检索过程带来消极影响.为此,本文提出基于兴趣目标的图像检索方案,并借助于现有的显著性检测、图像分割、特征提取等技术实现一款有效的图像检索算法.首先采用HS （Hierarchical Saliency,分层显著性）检测算法分析用户的兴趣目标并应用SC （Saliency-based Image Cut,基于显著性的图像分割）算法将其分割,然后针对兴趣目标提取HSV （Hue、Saturation、Value,色调、饱和度、明度）颜色特征、SIFT （Scale Invariant Feature Transform,尺度不变特征变换）局部特征和CNN （Convolutional Neural Network,卷积神经网络）语义特征,最后计算其与数据库图像的相似度并根据相似度排序返回检索结果.仿真实验结果表明,本文算法在解决"这是什么东西"这类图像检索任务时明显优于现有的图像检索算法.     

基于全变差正则化的相位恢复算法

相位恢复问题是指仅通过信号傅立叶变换（或其它线性变换）的幅值恢复原始信号.由于相位信息的缺失,该问题是一个不适定问题,因此需利用先验知识确保精确重建.本文基于非线性压缩感知框架,提出利用自然图像在梯度算子下的稀疏性进行相位恢复的算法.该算法将全变差正则项融合到基于支撑约束和幅值约束的相位恢复问题中,并利用交替方向乘子法（ADMM）对所对应的非凸优化问题进行求解.实验结果表明,该算法明显优于HIO,RAAR等经典的相位恢复算法,并对噪声具有鲁棒性.     

Integration of wavelet transform,Local Binary Patterns and moments for content-based image retrieval

The proliferation of large number of images has made it necessary to develop systems for indexing and organizing images for easy access. This has made Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) an important area of research in Computer Vision. This paper proposes a combination of features in multiresolution analysis framework for image retrieval. In this work, the concept of multiresolution analysis has been exploited through the use of wavelet transform. This paper combines Local Binary Pattern (LBP) with Legendre Moments at multiple resolutions of wavelet decomposition of image. First, LBP codes of Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) coefficients of images are computed to extract texture feature from image. The Legendre Moments of these LBP codes are then computed to extract shape feature from texture feature for constructing feature vectors. These feature vectors are used to search and retrieve visually similar images from large database. The proposed method has been tested on five benchmark datasets, namely, Corel-1K, Olivia-2688, Corel-5K, Corel-10K, and GHIM-10K, and performance of the proposed method has been measured in terms of precision and recall. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms some of the other state-of-the-art methods in terms of precision and recall.     

基于特征融合的粒子滤波目标跟踪新方法

针对传统粒子滤波(PF)算法采用单一颜色特征建模 跟踪目标性能差的缺陷,提出一种颜色特征与纹理特 征相融合的PF目标跟踪新算法。首先,采用一种具有抗噪声和保护纹理边缘的全局中值二值 模式 (GMBP)纹理算子,对模板图像进行局部差绝对值处理,得到幅 值序列模板,将幅值序列模板内的中值作为模板的阈值,与模板邻域比较获得新的纹理图像 ;然后,与 具有光照不变特性的局部二值模式(LBP)纹理算子结合,形成一种(GMLBP)新的纹理描述算子 。最后,分别计算GMLBP纹理特征粒子权值和HSV颜色特征粒子权 值,并依据权值大小确定融合系数,对纹理特征粒子权值和颜色特征粒子权值进行线 性融合,再对融合后粒子权值进行归一化处理,从而得到目标位置状态的最终估计值。对比 实验结果表明, 相对于单一颜色特征的目标跟踪算法,所提算法捕捉目标位置准确且具有更低的平均跟踪误 差,其平均误差降低了近2倍。     

基于LBP特征和贝叶斯模型的单样本人脸识别

针对单样本人脸识别这一人脸识别中的难点问题,提出了一种基于局部二元模式(LBP)直方图特征和贝叶斯(Bayes)模型的人脸识别方法.首先在独立的训练集上学习同类样本和异类样本的LBP直方图特征的相似度先验信息,估计同类和异类的类条件概率密度函数,在识别过程中利用一对图像的LBP直方图相似度计算该对图像属于同一类的后验概...     

High slew rate current mode transconductance error amplifier for low quiescent current output-capacitorless CMOS LDO regulator

This paper presents a CMOS low quiescent current output-capacitorless low-dropout regulator (LDO) based on a high slew rate current mode transconductance amplifier (CTA) as error amplifier. Using local common-mode feedback (LCMFB) in the proposed CTA, the order of transfer characteristic of the circuit is increased. Therefore, the slew rate at the gate of pass transistor is enhanced. This improves the LDO load transient characteristic even at low quiescent current. The proposed LDO topology has been designed and post simulated in HSPICE in a 0.18 µm CMOS process to supply the load current between 0 and 100 mA. The dropout voltage of the LDO is set to 200 mV for 1.2–2 V input voltage. Post-layout simulation results reveal that the proposed LDO is stable without any internal compensation strategy and with on-chip output capacitor or lumped parasitic capacitances at the output node between 10 and 100 pF. The total quiescent current of the LDO including the current consumed by the reference buffer circuit is only 3.7 µA. A final benchmark comparison considering all relevant performance metrics is presented.     

No reference image blurriness assessment with local binary patterns

In this paper, we put forward an effective and efficient no reference image blurriness assessment metric on the basis of local binary pattern (LBP) features. In this proposal, we reveal that part of the LBP histogram bins present monotonously with the degree of blurriness. The proposed method contains the following steps. Firstly, the LBP maps of an input image are extracted with multiple radiuses. And then, the frequency of pattern histogram is analyzed before part of bins are chosen as the features. In addition, we also take the entropy of these bins as another feature. Finally, we learn the extracted features to predict the image blurriness score. Validation of the proposed method is conducted on the blurred images of LIVE-II, CSIQ, TID2008, TID2013, LIVE3D IQA Phase I and LIVE3D IQA Phase II. Experimental results demonstrate that compared with the state-of-the-art image quality assessment (IQA) methods, the proposed algorithm has notable advantage in correlation with subjective perception and computational complexity.