Gabor-Filtering-Based Completed Local Binary Patterns for Land-Use Scene Classification

Remote sensing land-use scene classification has a wide range of applications including forestry, urban-growth analysis, and weather forecasting. This paper presents an effective image representation method, Gabor-filtering-based completed local binary patterns (GCLBP), for land-use scene classification. It employs the multi-orientation Gabor filters to capture the global texture information from an input image. Then, a local operator called completed local binary patterns (CLBP) is utilized to extract the local texture features, such as edges and corners, from the Gabor feature images and the input image. The resulting CLBP histogram features are concatenated to represent an input image. Experimental results on two datasets demonstrate that the proposed method is superior to several existing methods for land-use scene classification.