In this paper, we propose a simple and robust local descriptor, called the robust local binary pattern (RLBP). The local binary pattern (LBP) works very successfully in many domains, such as texture classification, human detection and face recognition. However, an issue of LBP is that it is not so robust to the noise present in the image. We improve the robustness of LBP by changing the coding bit of LBP. Experimental results on the Brodatz and UIUC texture databases show that RLBP impressively outperforms the other widely used descriptors (e.g., SIFT, Gabor, MR8 and LBP) and other variants of LBP (e.g., completed LBP), especially when we add noise in the images. In addition, experimental results on human face recognition also show a promising performance comparable to the best known results on the Face Recognition Grand Challenge (FRGC) face dataset.

Background modeling plays an important role in video surveillance, yet in complex scenes it is still a challenging problem. Among many difficulties, problems caused by illumination variations and dynamic backgrounds are the key aspects. In this work, we develop an efficient background subtraction framework to tackle these problems. First, we propose a scale invariant local ternary pattern operator, and show that it is effective for handling illumination variations, especially for moving soft shadows. Second, we propose a pattern kernel density estimation technique to effectively model the probability distribution of local patterns in the pixel process, which utilizes only one single LBP-like pattern instead of histogram as feature. Third, we develop multimodal background models with the above techniques and a multiscale fusion scheme for handling complex dynamic backgrounds. Exhaustive experimental evaluations on complex scenes show that the proposed method is fast and effective, achieving more than 10% improvement in accuracy compared over existing state-of-the-art algorithms.

We present a novel approach for human activity reco gnition. The method uses dynamic texture descriptors to describe human movements in a spatiotemporal way. The same features are also use d for human detection, which makes our whole approach computationally simple. Following recent trends in computer vision research , our method works on image data rather than silhouettes. We test our met hod on a publicly available dataset and compare our result to the sta te of the art methods.

We present a Bayesian framework for action recognition through ballistic dynamics. Psycho-kinesiological studies indicate that ballistic movements form the natural units for human movement planning. The framework leads to an efficient and robust algorithm for temporally segmenting videos into atomic movements. Individual movements are annotated with person-centric morphological labels called ballistic verbs. This is tested on a dataset of interactive movements, achieving high recognition rates. The approach is also applied on a gesture recognition task, improving a previously reported recognition rate from 84% to 92%. Consideration of ballistic dynamics enhances the performance of the popular Motion History Image feature. We also illustrate the approachpsilas general utility on real-world videos. Experiments indicate that the method is robust to view, style and appearance variations.