Empirical Evaluation of MPEG-7 Texture Descriptors with A Large-Scale Experiment

This paper conducts an empirical evaluation of the MPEG-7 texture descriptors and the LBP (Local Binary Pattern) operator. The experiment involves 319 textures from the Outex texture database, which makes it one of the largest experiments found in the literature, if not the largest, in terms of the number of texture classes. The descriptors are evaluated with respect to retrieval performance and computational complexity. Experimental results show that the LBP operator outperforms MPEG-7 texture descriptors on both accounts.

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