Visual recognition using local quantized patterns

  • Authors:
  • Sibt ul Hussain;Bill Triggs

  • Affiliations:
  • GREYC, CNRS UMR 6072, Université de Caen, France;Laboratoire Jean Kuntzmann, Grenoble, France

  • Venue:
  • ECCV'12 Proceedings of the 12th European conference on Computer Vision - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Features such as Local Binary Patterns (LBP) and Local Ternary Patterns (LTP) have been very successful in a number of areas including texture analysis, face recognition and object detection. They are based on the idea that small patterns of qualitative local gray-level differences contain a great deal of information about higher-level image content. Current local pattern features use hand-specified codings that are limited to small spatial supports and coarse graylevel comparisons. We introduce Local Quantized Patterns (LQP), a generalization that uses lookup-table-based vector quantization to code larger or deeper patterns. LQP inherits some of the flexibility and power of visual word representations without sacrificing the run-time speed and simplicity of local pattern ones. We show that it outperforms well-established features including HOG, LBP and LTP and their combinations on a range of challenging object detection and texture classification problems.