Directional local extrema patterns: a new descriptor for content based image retrieval

In this paper, a new algorithm using directional local extrema patterns meant for content-based image retrieval application is proposed. The standard local binary pattern (LBP) encodes the relationship between reference pixel and its surrounding neighbors by comparing gray-level values. The proposed method differs from the existing LBP in a manner that it extracts the directional edge information based on local extrema in 0$$^{\circ }$$, 45$$^{\circ }$$, 90$$^{\circ }$$, and 135$$^{\circ }$$ directions in an image. Performance is compared with LBP, block-based LBP (BLK_LBP), center-symmetric local binary pattern (CS-LBP), local edge patterns for segmentation (LEPSEG), local edge patterns for image retrieval (LEPINV), and other existing transform domain methods by conducting four experiments on benchmark databases viz. Corel (DB1) and Brodatz (DB2) databases. The results after being investigated show a significant improvement in terms of their evaluation measures as compared with other existing methods on respective databases.

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