TY - JOUR AU - Fahad Shahbaz Khan AU - Muhammad Anwer Rao AU - Joost Van de Weijer AU - Michael Felsberg AU - J.Laaksonen PY - 2015// TI - Compact color texture description for texture classification T2 - PRL JO - Pattern Recognition Letters SP - 16 EP - 22 VL - 51 N2 - Describing textures is a challenging problem in computer vision and pattern recognition. The classification problem involves assigning a category label to the texture class it belongs to. Several factors such as variations in scale, illumination and viewpoint make the problem of texture description extremely challenging. A variety of histogram based texture representations exists in literature.However, combining multiple texture descriptors and assessing their complementarity is still an open research problem. In this paper, we first show that combining multiple local texture descriptors significantly improves the recognition performance compared to using a single best method alone. Thisgain in performance is achieved at the cost of high-dimensional final image representation. To counter this problem, we propose to use an information-theoretic compression technique to obtain a compact texture description without any significant loss in accuracy. In addition, we perform a comprehensiveevaluation of pure color descriptors, popular in object recognition, for the problem of texture classification. Experiments are performed on four challenging texture datasets namely, KTH-TIPS-2a, KTH-TIPS-2b, FMD and Texture-10. The experiments clearly demonstrate that our proposed compact multi-texture approach outperforms the single best texture method alone. In all cases, discriminative color names outperforms other color features for texture classification. Finally, we show that combining discriminative color names with compact texture representation outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 7:8%, 4:3% and 5:0% on KTH-TIPS-2a, KTH-TIPS-2b and Texture-10 datasets respectively. UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2014.07.020 N1 - LAMP; 600.068; 600.079;ADAS ID - Fahad Shahbaz Khan2015 ER -