CS-CoLBP: Cross-Scale Co-occurrence Local Binary Pattern for Image Classification

Bin Xiao, Danyu Shi, Xiuli Bi, Weisheng Li, Xinbo Gao

Abstract: The local binary pattern (LBP) is an effective feature, describing the size relationship between the neighboring pixels and the current pixel. While individual LBP-based methods yield good results, co-occurrence LBP-based methods exhibit a better ability to extract structural information. However, most of the co-occurrence LBP-based methods excel mainly in dealing with rotated images, exhibiting limitations in preserving performance for scaled images. To address the issue, a cross-scale co-occurrence LBP (CS-CoLBP) is proposed. Initially, we construct an LBP co-occurrence space to capture robust structural features by simulating scale transformation. Subsequently, we use Cross-Scale Co-occurrence pairs (CS-Co pairs) to extract the structural features, keeping robust descriptions even in the presence of scaling. Finally, we refine these CS-Co pairs through Rotation Consistency Adjustment (RCA) to bolster their rotation invariance, thereby making the proposed CS-CoLBP as powerful as existing co-occurrence LBP-based methods for rotated image description. While keeping the desired geometric invariance, the proposed CS-CoLBP maintains a modest feature dimension. Empirical evaluations across several datasets demonstrate that CS-CoLBP outperforms the existing state-of-the-art LBP-based methods even in the presence of geometric transformations and image manipulations.

External IDs:dblp:journals/ijcv/XiaoSBLG25