Extended Local Binary Pattern Research Articles

A machine learning approach for slow slip event detection using GNSS time-series

Extracting tectonic transient displacements on the Earth’s surface from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) time series remains a challenge, because GNSS station displacements depend on multiple processes occurring simultaneously, along with noise that obscures low-magnitude transient signals. We present a novel method for automatic detection of slow slip events (SSEs) in time series of a GNSS network by training a supervised machine learning (ML) model for classification. The proposed methodology detects both temporally and spatially the signatures of SSEs or regional transients within a GNSS network. The time series of a GNSS network were transformed into grayscale images, from which descriptors, including Bag of Visual Words (BoW) and Extended Local Binary Patterns (ELBP), were extracted. These descriptors served as input features for two distinct ML models: Support Vector Machines (SVM) and Artificial Neural Networks (NN). To train and test the ML classification model, two 3-year synthetic datasets were generated, one with GNSS networks featuring slow slip events (SSEs) of varying location, duration, onset time, and magnitude, and the other without SSEs, resulting in positive and negative sets, respectively. For each GNSS network, an image was created by combining the east and north components of the time series, which have been previously detrended and common mode error filtered. Each image is further divided into sub-images corresponding to 60 days time windows, in order to temporarily detect the existence of a transient. For training and testing, the datasets were separated into 75% for training and 25% for testing, each with 50% positive and 50% negative cases. In the final step, we analyze the positively classified images, representing the time windows in which the classifier detected transients. Within each of these windows, we identify the network’s time series with the highest velocity, indicating the stations and geographic area where the detected transients occurred. The test results demonstrate that both ML models achieved high performance using both ELBP and BoW descriptors as features. Finally, our ML models were validated on a real dataset with a transient signal recorded before the 2014 Iquique earthquake in Chile, and they effectively detected this anomalous signal. The proposed method can effectively detect transient signals related to SSEs with high accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity in both the test and instrumentally recorded datasets.

Optimized hyperbolic tangent function-based contrast-enhanced mammograms for breast mass detection

Breast cancer is a grave concern among women due to its high mortality rate in women as compared to that in men. Mass, an early symptom of breast cancer, is difficult to detect due to its subtle nature. Mammography, an effective and most preferred screening technique, generally uses low-contrast images where identification of some of the mass lesions from surrounding normal tissues is a difficult task even for skilled radiologists. Therefore, to alleviate the issue, this paper introduces an effective computer-aided detection scheme based on a novel contrast enhancement scheme for mammograms to automate the localization procedure of mass cases. Hyperbolic tangent function, a simple yet effective method, is introduced as an enhancement transfer function whose adjustable parameter is optimized by the Tunicate swarm algorithm, a nature-inspired optimization algorithm, via fitness function. To minimize the false positives generated after the detection, the median robust extended local binary pattern, a texture-based descriptor, is introduced, which possesses the ability to capture both micro- and macro-structure information from an image patch. The analysis includes four classifiers: Fisher linear discriminant analysis, K-nearest neighbor, support vector machine, and an ensemble classifier in the feature-based classification for false positive reduction (FPR). The proposed approach of automatic detection of masses when verified using two standard databases, mini-MIAS and Digital Database for Screening Mammography, comprised 68 and 550 mammograms, respectively, achieved sensitivities of 95.3% and 94.1% with 0.36 and 0.40 false positives per image after false positive reduction.

Scale-selective and noise-robust extended local binary pattern for texture classification

As one of the most successful local feature descriptors, the local binary pattern (LBP) estimates the texture distribution rule of an image based on the signs of differences between neighboring pixels to obtain intensity- and rotation- invariance. In this paper, we propose a novel image descriptor to address scale transformation and noise interference simultaneously. We name it scale-selective and noise-robust extended LBP (SNELBP). First, each image in training sets is transformed into different scale spaces by a Gaussian filter. Second, noise-robust pattern histograms are obtained from each scale space by using our previously proposed median robust extended LBP (MRELBP). Then, scale-invariant histograms are determined by selecting the maximum among all scale levels for a certain image. Finally, the most informative patterns are selected from the dictionary pretrained by the two-stage compact dominant feature selection method (CDFS), maintaining the descriptor more lightweight with sufficiently low time cost. Extensive experiments on five public databases (Outex_TC_00011, TC_00012, KTH-TIPS, UMD and NEU) and one fresh texture database (JoJo) under two kinds of interferences (Gaussian and salt pepper) indicate that our SNELBP yields more competitive results than thirty classical LPB variants as well as eight typical deep learning methods.

Detection of Facial Spoofing Attacks in Uncontrolled Environments Using ELBP and Color Models

Distance education has become an alternative in teaching derived from the Covid-19 pandemic. However, distance education has led to bad practices for some students. For example, it was detected that some students spoofed the teacher in a class or exam. Therefore, facial biometrics can be used to solve, in real-time, the spoofing problem. However, the solution is not exempt from presentation attacks that undermine the reliability of the systems. Other challenges that must be considered are lighting, resolution, and variable size of the faces, among others. In this paper, we present a methodology to address the problem of facial spoofing attacks. We combine the Extended Local Binary Patterns (ELBP) descriptor and YCbCr, HSV color models to highlight the saturation and illumination of an image. For the experiments, we present a comparison of our proposal against other state-of-the-art methods. We obtain an error of 2.45% with the Half Total Error Rate (HTER) metric in the MSU image bank. The results revealed that for environments where the camera resolutions are not controlled, our proposal provides a feasible solution reducing the costs of acquiring specific hardware

Remote Sensing Image Retrieval Based on 3D-Local Ternary Pattern (LTP) Features and Non-subsampled Shearlet Transform (NSST) Domain Statistical Features

With the increasing popularity of high-resolution remote sensing images, the remote sensing image retrieval (RSIR) has always been a topic of major issue. A combined, global non-subsampled shearlet transform (NSST)-domain statistical features (NSSTds) and local three dimensional local ternary pattern (3D-LTP) features, is proposed for high-resolution remote sensing images. We model the NSST image coefficients of detail subbands using 2-state laplacian mixture (LM) distribution and its three parameters are estimated using Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm. We also calculate the statistical parameters such as subband kurtosis and skewness from detail subbands along with mean and standard deviation calculated from approximation subband, and concatenate all of them with the 2-state LM parameters to describe the global features of the image. The various properties of NSST such as multiscale, localization and flexible directional sensitivity make it a suitable choice to provide an effective approximation of an image. In order to extract the dense local features, a new 3D-LTP is proposed where dimension reduction is performed via selection of ‘uniform’ patterns. The 3D-LTP is calculated from spatial RGB planes of the input image. The proposed inter-channel 3D-LTP not only exploits the local texture information but the color information is captured too. Finally, a fused feature representation (NSSTds-3DLTP) is proposed using new global (NSSTds) and local (3D-LTP) features to enhance the discriminativeness of features. The retrieval performance of proposed NSSTds-3DLTP features are tested on three challenging remote sensing image datasets such as WHU-RS19, Aerial Image Dataset (AID) and PatternNet in terms of mean average precision (MAP), average normalized modified retrieval rank (ANMRR) and precision-recall (P-R) graph. The experimental results are encouraging and the NSSTds-3DLTP features leads to superior retrieval performance compared to many well known existing descriptors such as Gabor RGB, Granulometry, local binary pattern (LBP), Fisher vector (FV), vector of locally aggregated descriptors (VLAD) and median robust extended local binary pattern (MRELBP). For WHU-RS19 dataset, in terms of {MAP,ANMRR}, the NSSTds-3DLTP improves upon Gabor RGB, Granulometry, LBP, FV, VLAD and MRELBP descriptors by {41.93%,20.87%}, {92.30%,32.68%}, {86.14%,31.97%}, {18.18%,15.22%}, {8.96%,19.60%} and {15.60%,13.26%}, respectively. For AID, in terms of {MAP,ANMRR}, the NSSTds-3DLTP improves upon Gabor RGB, Granulometry, LBP, FV, VLAD and MRELBP descriptors by {152.60%,22.06%}, {226.65%,25.08%}, {185.03%,23.33%}, {80.06%,12.16%}, {50.58%,10.49%} and {62.34%,3.24%}, respectively. For PatternNet, the NSSTds-3DLTP respectively improves upon Gabor RGB, Granulometry, LBP, FV, VLAD and MRELBP descriptors by {32.79%, 10.34%}, {141.30%, 24.72%}, {17.47%,10.34%}, {83.20%,19.07%}, {21.56%,3.60%}, and {19.30%,0.48%} in terms of {MAP,ANMRR}. The moderate dimensionality of simple NSSTds-3DLTP allows the system to run in real-time.

Identity verification using palm print microscopic images based on median robust extended local binary pattern features and k-nearest neighbor classifier.

Automatic identity verification is one of the most critical and research-demanding areas. One of the most effective and reliable identity verification methods is using unique human biological characteristics and biometrics. Among all types of biometrics, palm print is recognized as one of the most accurate and reliable identity verification methods. However, this biometrics domain also has several critical challenges: image rotation, image displacement, change in image scaling, presence of noise in the image due to devices, region of interest (ROI) detection, or user error. For this purpose, a new method of identity verification based on median robust extended local binary pattern (MRELBP) is introduced in this study. In this system, after normalizing the images and extracting the ROI from the microscopic input image, the images enter the feature extraction step with the MRELBP algorithm. Next, these features are reduced by the dimensionality reduction step, and finally, feature vectors are classified using the k-nearest neighbor classifier. The microscopic images used in this study were selected from IITD and CASIA data sets, and the identity verification rate for these two data sets without challenge was 97.2% and 96.6%, respectively. In addition, computed detection rates have been broadly stable against changes such as salt-and-pepper noise up to 0.16, rotation up to 5°, displacement up to 6 pixels, and scale change up to 94%.

A comparative study of 14 state of art descriptors for face recognition

This research paper presents a comparative study between 14 state of art descriptors which includes Local Binary Pattern (LBP), Median Binary Pattern (MBP), 6 × 6 Multiscale Block LBP (6 × 6 MB-LBP), Local Neighborhood Difference Pattern (LNDP), Logically Connected-LBP (LC-LBP), Local Phase Quantization (LPQ), Compound LBP (CLBP), Horizontal Elliptical LBP (HELBP), Vertical Elliptical LBP (VELBP), ELBP, Neighborhood Intensity Based LBP (NI-LBP), Median Robust Extended LBP Based on NI (MRELBP-NI), Radial Difference-LBP (RD-LBP) and Transition LBP (tLBP). For all the descriptors the features are extracted globally and the dimensionality of the feature size is reduced by employing Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Fishers Linear Discriminant Analysis (FLDA). Finally classification is performed by Support Vector Machines (SVMs) and Nearest Neighbor (NN). Experiments are performed on 8 challenging databases which covers all the major challenges such as pose variations, illumination variations, expression variations and occlusion changes. The 8 challenging databases includes ORL, GT, Faces94, MIT-CBCL, Yale, YB, EYB and SOF. Out of all the descriptors it is the performance of the CLBP descriptor which is most encouraging. On some occasions the MRELBP-NI descriptor also achieves good results. But all in all the CLBP descriptor achieves the best results. In addition to this Deep learning based descriptors are also discussed in the paper.

A Novel Reliable Approach For Image Batik Classification That Invariant With Scale And Rotation Using MU2ECS-LBP Algorithm

Abstract Batik in Indonesia has various types of patterns, which are arranged repeatedly to illustrate the basic motifs of cloth as a whole. Types of batik motifs collected through several sources such as batik magazines, the internet or directly using a digital camera. Batik’s pattern automatic classification still requires some improvement especially in regards to invariant with scale and rotation. The batik‘s pattern of changing this dilemma at the same time needs a feature extraction algorithm that is reliable in supporting image classification. This algorithm is multiwindow and multiscale extended center symmetric local binary patterns (MU2ECS-LBP) which uses several windows such as the size of 6x6, 9x9, 12x12, and 15x15 or a combination between windows. To recognize the batik pattern automatically, we implement a batik classification method using kNN and ANN. After doing some experiments the results of the accuracy values with the kNN method, based on the effect of training images and image conditions, on multi-window 6-9-12-15, another multi-window 6-12-15 with overlapping images of 40 and 50 pixels and the number of image classes 5, 9 and 12 classes are 99.91% and 99.8%. With the ANN method, the accuracy classification value is based on the multi-window effect and image overlap, where the highest accuracy value on multiwindow 6-9-12-15 with ANN architecture 64-240-12 is 98.43%. A novel algorithm is a development of the local binary pattern algorithm, but by looking at the results of classification accuracy which is very good and reliable. So that the feature extraction algorithm is very feasible to be developed and continued for other research.

Environmental Sound Classification Using Local Binary Pattern and Audio Features Collaboration

This paper presents a new approach to classify environmental sounds using a texture feature local binary pattern (LBP) and audio features collaboration. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the LBP (or its variants), which has a proven track record in the field of image recognition and classification, has been generalized for 1D and combined with audio features for an environmental sound classification task. To this end, we have generalized and defined LBP-1D and local phase quantization (LPQ)-1D on the 1-dimensional (1D) audio signal and have applied the original LBP, the variance LBP (VARLBP) and the extended LBP (ELBP) thus generated to the spectrogram of the audio signal in order to model the sound texture. We have also extensively compared these new LBP-based features to the classical audio descriptors commonly used in environmental sound classification, such as MFCC, GFCC, CQT, chromagram, STE and ZCR. We have evaluated our algorithm on ESC-10 and ESC-50 datasets using classical machine learning algorithms, such as support vector machines (SVM), random forest and k-nearest neighbor (kNN). The results showed that the LBP features outperform the classical audio features. We mix the LBP features with the audio descriptors, and our best mixed model achieves state-of-the-art results for environmental sound classification: 88.5 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\%$</tex-math></inline-formula> on ESC-10 and 64.6 <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\%$</tex-math></inline-formula> on ESC-50. Those results outperform the results of methods that used handcrafted features with classical machine learning algorithms and are similar to some convolutional neural network-based methods. Although our method is not the cutting edge of the state-of-the-art methods, it is faster than any convolutional neural network methods and represents a better choice when there is data scarcity or minimal computing power.

Development of a Robust Multi-Scale Featured Local Binary Pattern for Improved Facial Expression Recognition.

Compelling facial expression recognition (FER) processes have been utilized in very successful fields like computer vision, robotics, artificial intelligence, and dynamic texture recognition. However, the FER’s critical problem with traditional local binary pattern (LBP) is the loss of neighboring pixels related to different scales that can affect the texture of facial images. To overcome such limitations, this study describes a new extended LBP method to extract feature vectors from images, detecting each image from facial expressions. The proposed method is based on the bitwise AND operation of two rotational kernels applied on LBP(8,1) and LBP(8,2) and utilizes two accessible datasets. Firstly, the facial parts are detected and the essential components of a face are observed, such as eyes, nose, and lips. The portion of the face is then cropped to reduce the dimensions and an unsharp masking kernel is applied to sharpen the image. The filtered images then go through the feature extraction method and wait for the classification process. Four machine learning classifiers were used to verify the proposed method. This study shows that the proposed multi-scale featured local binary pattern (MSFLBP), together with Support Vector Machine (SVM), outperformed the recent LBP-based state-of-the-art approaches resulting in an accuracy of 99.12% for the Extended Cohn–Kanade (CK+) dataset and 89.08% for the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces (KDEF) dataset.

Local binary patterns based on α-cutting approach

Local binary patterns (LBP) are well documented in the literature as descriptors of local image texture, and their histograms have been shown to be well-performing texture features. A method for texture description that is based on the α-cutting approach is presented. The presented approach combines basic definitions from the fuzzy set theory with the main concept of LBP descriptors, which resulted in powerful texture features. The general method is introduced and defined and its binary, ternary, and quinary versions evaluated in tests produced excellent results in texture classification. The performance of our method is presented by an extensive evaluation on four datasets—KTH-TIPS2b, UIUC, Virus, and Brodatz. The introduced descriptors are compared with some of the classical approaches—LBP, improved LBP, local ternary pattern, including one very promising LBP variant—median robust extended LBP (MRELBP), as well as with three non-LBP methods, based on deep convolutional neural networks approaches—ScatNet, FV-AlexNet, and fisher vector based very deep VGG. Our method effectively deals with many classification challenges and exceeds most of the other approaches. It outperforms the classical approaches on all datasets, even in its simplest binary version. It outperforms the MRELBP descriptor on the UIUC, KTH-TIPS2b, and Brodatz datasets and reaches a better classification performance than two out of the three deep learning approaches on the KTH-TIPS2b dataset.

Empirical Evaluation of Texture Features and Classifiers for Liver Disease Diagnosis

The liver cancer is one of the most common fatal diseases worldwide, and its early detection through medical imaging is a major contributor to the reduction in mortality from certain cancer. This paves the way to work on diagnosing liver diseases effectively. An accurate diagnosis of liver disease in CT image requires an efficient description of textures and classification methods. This paper performs comparative analysis on proposed texture feature descriptor with the different existing texture features with various classifiers to classify six types of diffused and focal liver diseases. The classification of liver diseases is done in two stages. In first stage, features like segmentation based fractal texture analysis, counting label occurrence matrix, local configuration pattern, eXtended center-symmetric local binary pattern and the proposed local symmetric tetra pattern are used for extracting information from the CT liver structure and classifiers like support vector machine, [Formula: see text]-nearest neighbor, and naive Bayes are used for classifying the pathologic liver. When pathologic conditions are detected, the best feature descriptors and classifiers are used to classify the results into any of six exclusive pathologic liver diseases, in second stage. The experiments are carried out in medically validated liver datasets containing normal and six-disease category of liver. The first experiment is analyzed using sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy. The second experiment is evaluated using precision, recall, BCR, and F-measure. The results demonstrate that the local symmetric tetra pattern with [Formula: see text]-nearest neighbor classifier culminates in a state-of-the-art performance for diagnosing liver diseases.

Fractal Anti-Counterfeit Label Comparison Using Combined Image Features and Clustering

The comparison of traditional fractal anti-counterfeit labels is based mainly on manual inspection. However, such labels have rich details and complex structures, making the entire identification process labor-intensive. Thus, manual inspections are highly susceptible to low identification accuracy, which produces unreliable results. To best address these disadvantages, an automatic comparison method for fractal anti-counterfeit labels is proposed. The method can effectively extract the color features, texture features, and shape features of anti-counterfeit labels, and perform cluster analysis and comparison. First, a color volume histogram is used to extract the color and pixel space information features from the fractal anti-counterfeit labels. To compensate for the deficiency of using a single feature, texture and shape features were also extracted based on the median robust extended local binary patterns (MRELBP) and Hu moments. Next, based on feature extraction, k-means clustering is performed to ensure that as many of the same types of labels as possible can be divided into the same clusters and that the comparison can only be performed on one or a few clusters. The experimental results show that the speed and quality of fractal anti-counterfeit label comparison effectively improved after the clustering analysis. Furthermore, based on visual identification and unreliable comparison results, the proposed method is expected to help consumers quickly identify low-quality, counterfeit products.

An accurate multi-modal biometric identification system for person identification via fusion of face and finger print

Internet of things (IoT) have entirely revolutionized the industry. However, the cyber-security of IoT enabled cyber-physical systems is still one of the main challenges. The success of cyber-physical system is highly reliant on its capability to withstand cyberattacks. Biometric identification is the key factor responsible for the provision of secure cyber-physical system. The conventional unimodal biometric systems do not have the potential to provide the required level of security for cyber-physical system. The unimodal biometric systems are affected by a variety of issues like noisy sensor data, non-universality, susceptibility to forgery and lack of invariant representation. To overcome these issues and to provide higher-security enabled cyber-physical systems, the combination of different biometric modalities is required. To ensure a secure cyber-physical system, a novel multi-modal biometric system based on face and finger print is proposed in this work. Finger print matching is performed using alignment-based elastic algorithm. For the improved facial feature extraction, extended local binary patterns (ELBP) are used. For the effective dimensionality reduction of extracted ELBP feature space, local non-negative matrix factorization is used. Score level fusion is performed for the fusion. Experimental evaluation is done on FVC 2000 DB1, FVC 2000 DB2, ORL (AT&T) and YALE databases. The proposed method achieved a high recognition accuracy of 99.59%.

Lung tumour detection by fusing extended local binary patterns and weighted orientation of difference from computed tomography

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world. Although early detection of lung tumours (nodules) can remarkably diminish the mortal rate, precise detection of them is not always possible by visual inspection of the computerised tomography images. Since nodules with different sizes have non-uniform shape and brightness, texture attributes and also the gradient of orientation can be good candidate features, which have been used for this purpose. They determined the co-occurrence matrix of the extended local binary pattern (ELBP) along with weighted orientation difference (WOD) for each sub-region of the lung area. Local binary pattern is a texture descriptor that can extract the discriminative features efficiently. The proposed ELBP is rotation invariant and suitable to describe non-uniform patterns. Moreover, WOD as a structural feature uses the magnitude of each edge as the weight of its orientation difference. After constructing the co-occurrence matrix, discriminative features were extracted from this matrix and fed into a support vector machine in order to classify each sub-region as a cancerous (nodule) or normal tissue. The proposed method was compared to some of state-of-the-art nodule detection methods and was assessed over several real datasets in terms of specificity, sensitivity and accuracy.

Melamine Faced Panels Defect Classification beyond the Visible Spectrum.

In this work, we explore the use of images from different spectral bands to classify defects in melamine faced panels, which could appear through the production process. Through experimental evaluation, we evaluate the use of images from the visible (VS), near-infrared (NIR), and long wavelength infrared (LWIR), to classify the defects using a feature descriptor learning approach together with a support vector machine classifier. Two descriptors were evaluated, Extended Local Binary Patterns (E-LBP) and SURF using a Bag of Words (BoW) representation. The evaluation was carried on with an image set obtained during this work, which contained five different defect categories that currently occurs in the industry. Results show that using images from beyond the visual spectrum helps to improve classification performance in contrast with a single visible spectrum solution.

Extended scale invariant local binary pattern for background subtraction

Background subtraction based on change detection is the first step in many video surveillance systems, an effective background subtraction algorithm should distinguish foreground from the background sensitively, and adapt to the variation of background scenes robustly. In this study, the authors propose a robust background subtraction algorithm which takes advantages of local texture features represented by an extended scale invariant local binary pattern and colour intensities to characterise pixel representations. Local texture features achieve good tolerance against illumination variations in rich texture regions but not so efficiently on uniform regions, so a photometric invariant colour measurement is proposed to overcome its limitation. Both quantitative and qualitative evaluations carried out on a well-known change detection dataset are provided to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Automated depression analysis using convolutional neural networks from speech

To help clinicians to efficiently diagnose the severity of a person’s depression, the affective computing community and the artificial intelligence field have shown a growing interest in designing automated systems. The speech features have useful information for the diagnosis of depression. However, manually designing and domain knowledge are still important for the selection of the feature, which makes the process labor consuming and subjective. In recent years, deep-learned features based on neural networks have shown superior performance to hand-crafted features in various areas. In this paper, to overcome the difficulties mentioned above, we propose a combination of hand-crafted and deep-learned features which can effectively measure the severity of depression from speech. In the proposed method, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNN) are firstly built to learn deep-learned features from spectrograms and raw speech waveforms. Then we manually extract the state-of-the-art texture descriptors named median robust extended local binary patterns (MRELBP) from spectrograms. To capture the complementary information within the hand-crafted features and deep-learned features, we propose joint fine-tuning layers to combine the raw and spectrogram DCNN to boost the depression recognition performance. Moreover, to address the problems with small samples, a data augmentation method was proposed. Experiments conducted on AVEC2013 and AVEC2014 depression databases show that our approach is robust and effective for the diagnosis of depression when compared to state-of-the-art audio-based methods.

A Biometric Fusion Based on Face and Fingerprint Recognition using ANN

Biometric systems are used for identifying and recognizing individual characteristics on the basis of biological or behavioral features. In the research work, a biometric fusion system based on fingerprint and face using the artificial intelligence technique is proposed. To achieve better accuracy of the biometric fusion system, the uniqueness of feature is significant. To find out the unique feature set from the data, we have used different feature extraction algorithm in the proposed biometric fusion system. Initially, pre-processing has been applied on the test images which is used to remove the unwanted data from the uploaded image and return an appropriate data for further process. In the fingerprint part, minutia extraction is used as a feature of fingerprint whereas Extended Local Binary pattern (ELBP) is used for extracting features of face and creates a pattern of face features. To create a unique feature set, optimization algorithm is needed and we have used genetic algorithm as a feature optimization technique. In the proposed fusion system, ANN is used to classify the test data according to the trained ANN structure with optimized feature data of fingerprint and face. To check the efficiency of proposed fusion system, we have calculated the performance parameters like FAR, FRR and Accuracy. From the analysis of proposed fusion system, we have observed that the accuracy of the proposed work is better than the previous ones and it is more than the 94%. To design a proposed biometric fusion system, image processing toolbox is used under the MATLAB environment.

Median Robust Extended Local Binary Pattern for Texture Classification.

Local binary patterns (LBP) are considered among the most computationally efficient high-performance texture features. However, the LBP method is very sensitive to image noise and is unable to capture macrostructure information. To best address these disadvantages, in this paper, we introduce a novel descriptor for texture classification, the median robust extended LBP (MRELBP). Different from the traditional LBP and many LBP variants, MRELBP compares regional image medians rather than raw image intensities. A multiscale LBP type descriptor is computed by efficiently comparing image medians over a novel sampling scheme, which can capture both microstructure and macrostructure texture information. A comprehensive evaluation on benchmark data sets reveals MRELBP's high performance-robust to gray scale variations, rotation changes and noise-but at a low computational cost. MRELBP produces the best classification scores of 99.82%, 99.38%, and 99.77% on three popular Outex test suites. More importantly, MRELBP is shown to be highly robust to image noise, including Gaussian noise, Gaussian blur, salt-and-pepper noise, and random pixel corruption.