Novel LBP based texture descriptor for rotation, illumination and scale invariance for image texture analysis and classification using multi-kernel SVM

In case of illumination change, the local binary pattern (LBP) descriptor have found to be used in analysis of texture of the image because of the ease of computation and robustness to such changes. However, the LBP technique also comes with limitations such as its inability to capture the discriminative information completely. For enhancing the LBP’s performance, we proposed a new texture descriptor for rotation, illumination and scale invariance (IRSLBP) for texture classification. The proposed approach extracts the color features through quantification of the RGB space into single channel, which is marked by a smaller number of shades to reduce computation and to improve the efficiency. The IRSLBP descriptor provides the scale invariance by considering the circular neighbor set of every central pixel other than the normal neighboring pixels. Moreover, the proposed IRSLBP decomposed the difference vector into sign part and magnitude part by local difference sign magnitude transform. In addition, these mitigated the influence of rotation, illumination or noise and demonstrated effective robustness. Using the proposed IRSLBP descriptor, we have classified the different textures using Multi kernel support vector machine (SVM) approach.