Efficient Texture Classification Using Short-Time Fourier Transform with Spatial Pyramid Matching

Texture feature extraction plays an important role in texture image classification. In this paper, we have proposed a texture feature extraction method by utilizing the Short-time Fourier Transform to provide local image information, and for the global geometric correspondence we have proposed to use Spatial Pyramid Matching in frequency domain named as Short-time Fourier Transform with Spatial Pyramid Matching (STFT-SPM). The experiments are conducted on standard benchmark datasets for texture classification like Brodatz and KTH-TIPS2-a, shows that STFT-SPM can achieve significant improvement compared to the Local Phase Quantization, Weber local Descriptor and local Binary Pattern methods.