Texture description through histograms of equivalent patterns

Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 76-102

  Fernández, Antonio ^a   Álvarez, Marcos X ^a   Bianconi, Francesco ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

BGC; Image classification; LBP; LTP; Texture features

Indexed keywords

BGC; BINARIZATIONS; CO-OCCURRENCE-MATRIX; DESCRIPTORS; DISCRETIZATIONS; FEATURE SPACE; GENERAL TRENDS; GLOBAL FUNCTIONS; GRAY-LEVEL; IMAGE PATCHES; LBP; LOCAL BINARY PATTERNS; LOCAL TERNARY PATTERNS; LTP; MATHEMATICAL DEFINITIONS; NON-PARAMETRIC; NONPARAMETRIC METHODS; PARAMETRIC METHOD; SHAPE AND SIZE; TEXTURE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION; TEXTURE DESCRIPTION; TEXTURE DESCRIPTORS; TEXTURE FEATURES; THRESHOLDING;

GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

TEXTURES;

EID: 84871765523     PISSN: 09249907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10851-012-0349-8     Document Type: Article

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