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Elliptical local binary co-occurrence pattern for face image retrieval

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Abstract

Face image retrieval is considered as an active research field in computer vision. This paper describes a novel feature descriptor called elliptical local binary co-occurrence pattern (ELBCoP) for face image retrieval. This descriptor employs a combination of sparse elliptical local binary pattern (ELBP) and grey level co-occurrence matrix (GLCM). Unlike previous approaches, the sparse ELBP consider only 4 horizontal and 4 vertical neighbors from the elliptic shaped neighborhood, and uses 4 simple diagonal neighbors. Then the co-occurrence of pixel pairs, in the three local pattern maps obtained using sparse ELBP, are calculated using GLCM in two selected directions. These two directions of GLCM are selected according to the shape of the elliptic neighborhood. Through GLCM, the proposed ELBCoP extracts the frequency details and also the spatial relationship between the local pattern pairs very effectively. It is also shown that a properly selected subset of ELBCoP can still provide a robust and efficient description of face images, with significant reduction in feature vector dimensions. Experimental results on two benchmark face image databases show superior retrieval performance of ELBCoP and also subset of ELBCoP, when compared to various state of the art methods including a few very recent ones.

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