Texture classification using joint statistical representation in space-frequency domain with local quantized patterns

Despite its success in texture analysis, Local Binary Pattern (LBP) is operated in the original image space, and it fails to capture deeper pixel interactions to provide a more discriminative description. In this paper, we propose to explore the joint statistical representation in the space-frequency domain with local quantized patterns for texture classification. The proposed method consists of two channels. In each channel, the multi-resolution spatial filters are employed to generate multi-scale spatial maps and the local Fourier transform is subsequently applied to extract local frequency features (spectral maps). The global thresholding is adopted to quantize the spatial and spectral maps into different levels, which are then jointly encoded to built a space-frequency co-occurrence histogram. Finally, the two-channel feature histograms are combined to represent the texture. Experiments on the Outex texture database demonstrate the robustness of our method to image rotation and illumination changes, and our method outperforms the state of the art in terms of the classification accuracy.