Exploring Cross-Channel Texture Correlation for Color Texture Classification_CCLBP_BMVC2013英文文献资料.pdf

XIANBIAO QI ET AL.: CCLBP 1 Exploring Cross-Channel Texture Correlation for Color Texture Classification Xianbiao Qi1 1 Beijing University of Posts and qixianbiao@ Telecommunications, P.R. China Yu Qiao2 2 Shenzhen Key Lab of CVPR, yu.qiao@ Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Chun-Guang Li1 Technology, P.R. China lichunguang@ Jun Guo1 guojun@ Abstract This paper proposes a novel approach to encode cross-channel texture correlation for color texture classification task. Firstly, we quantitatively study the correlation between different color channels using Local Binary Pattern (LBP) as the texture descriptor and using Shannon’s information theory to measure the correlation. We find that (R, G) chan- nel pair exhibits stronger correlation than (R, B) and (G, B) channel pairs. Secondly, we propose a novel descriptor to encode the cross-channel texture correlation. The proposed descriptor can capture well the relative variance of texture patterns between different channels. Meanwhile, our descriptor is computationally efficient and robust to image ro- tation. We conduct extensive experiments on four challenging color texture databases to validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The experimental results show that the proposed approach significantly outperforms its mostly relevant counterpart (Multi- channel color LBP), and achieves the state-of-the-art performance. 1 Introduction Color and Texture are two important aspects of natural images. It is widely recognized that they provide strong complementary