This toolbox includes the implementations of the local descriptors described in the paper below:
- Cigdem Turan and Kin-Man Lam, “Histogram-based Local Descriptors for Facial Expression Recognition (FER): A comprehensive Study,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2018.05.024
There are in total 27 descriptors in the toolbox.
- Binary Pattern of Phase Congruency (BPPC)
- Gradient Directional Pattern (GDP)
- Gradient Direction Pattern (GDP2)
- Gradient Local Ternary Pattern (GLTeP)
- Improved Weber Binary Coding (IWBC)
- Local Arc Pattern (LAP)
- Local Binary Pattern (LBP)
- Local Directional Pattern (LDiP)
- Local Directional Pattern Variance (LDiPv)
- Local Directional Number Pattern (LDN)
- Local Directional Texture Pattern (LDTP)
- Local Frequency Descriptor (LFD)
- Local Gabor Binary Pattern Histogram Sequence (LGBPHS)
- Local Gabor Directional Pattern (LGDiP)
- Local Gradient Increasing Pattern (LGIP)
- Local Gradient Pattern (LGP)
- Local Gabor Transitional Pattern (LGTrP)
- Local Monotonic Pattern (LMP)
- Local Phase Quantization (LPQ)
- Local Ternary Pattern (LTeP)
- Local Transitional Pattern (LTrP)
- Monogenic Binary Coding (MBC)
- Median Binary Pattern (MBP)
- Median Robust Extended Local Binary Pattern (MRELBP)
- Median Ternary Pattern (MTP)
- Pyramid of Histogram of Oriented Gradients (PHOG)
- Weber Local Descriptor (WLD)
WHEN PUBLISHING A PAPER AS A RESULT OF RESEARCH CONDUCTED BY USING THIS CODE OR ANY PART OF IT, MAKE A REFERENCE TO THE FOLLOWING PUBLICATIONS:
- Cigdem Turan and Kin-Man Lam, “Histogram-based Local Descriptors for Facial Expression Recognition (FER): A comprehensive Study,” Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 2018. doi: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2018.05.024
(Please do not forget to check specific descriptor funcs for the articles to be cited)
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files, to deal in the toolbox without restriction, subject to the following conditions:
- The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the toolbox.
- The toolbox is provided "as is", without warranty of any kind.
August 2018
Copyright (c) 2018 Cigdem Turan
Department of Electronic and Information Engineering,
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University