Combining the contrast information with LPQ for texture classification

Texture classification is an important problem in image analysis. A considerable amount of research work has been done for local or global rotation invariant feature extraction for texture classification. Local invariant features contain the spatial information, but usually do not have the contrast information. A new hybrid approach is proposed which considers the contrast information in spatial domain and the phase information in frequency domain of the image. It uses the joint histogram of the two complementary features, local phase quantization (LPQ) and the contrast of the image. Support vector machine is used for classification. The experimental results on standard benchmark datasets for texture classification Brodatz and KTH-TIPS2-a show that the proposed method can achieve significant improvement compared to the LPQ, Gabor filer or local Binary Pattern methods.