The Tangent Kernel Approach to Illumination-Robust Texture Classification

Co-occurrence matrices are proved to be useful tool for the purpose of texture recognition. However, they are sensitive to the change of the illumination conditions. There are standard preprocessing approaches to this problem. However, they are lacking certain qualities. We studied the tangent kernel SVM approach as an alternative way of building illumination-robust texture classifier. Testing on the standard texture data has shown promising results.