LP²DH: A Locality-Preserving Pixel-Difference Hashing Framework for Dynamic Texture Recognition
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LP²DH jointly hashes spatiotemporal pixel-difference vectors with locality preservation and Stiefel-manifold optimization to produce compact binary features that achieve state-of-the-art accuracy on UCLA, DynTex++, and YUPENN dynamic texture benchmarks.
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Core claim
The proposed LP²DH achieves state-of-the-art performance on three major dynamic texture recognition benchmarks: 99.80% against DT-GoogleNet's 98.93% on UCLA, 98.52% against HoGF³D's 97.63% on DynTex++, and 96.19% compared to STS's 95.00% on YUPENN.
Load-bearing premise
That the locality-preserving embedding combined with curvilinear search on the Stiefel manifold produces binary codes whose discriminative power generalizes beyond the three specific benchmarks without overfitting or requiring extensive hyperparameter tuning.
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Spatiotemporal Local Binary Pattern (STLBP) is a widely used dynamic texture descriptor, but it suffers from extremely high dimensionality. To tackle this, STLBP features are often extracted on three orthogonal planes, which sacrifice inter-plane correlation. In this work, we propose a Locality-Preserving Pixel-Difference Hashing (LP$^{2}$DH) framework that jointly encodes pixel differences in the full spatiotemporal neighbourhood. LP$^{2}$DH transforms Pixel-Difference Vectors (PDVs) into compact binary codes with maximal discriminative power. Furthermore, we incorporate a locality-preserving embedding to maintain the PDVs' local structure before and after hashing. Then, a curvilinear search strategy is utilized to jointly optimize the hashing matrix and binary codes via gradient descent on the Stiefel manifold. After hashing, dictionary learning is applied to encode the binary vectors into codewords, and the resulting histogram is utilized as the final feature representation. The proposed LP$^{2}$DH achieves state-of-the-art performance on three major dynamic texture recognition benchmarks: 99.80% against DT-GoogleNet's 98.93% on UCLA, 98.52% against HoGF$^{3D}$'s 97.63% on DynTex++, and 96.19% compared to STS's 95.00% on YUPENN. The source code is available at: https://github.com/drx770/LP2DH.
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- domain assumption The Stiefel manifold optimization via curvilinear search converges to a useful local minimum for the joint hashing objective.
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