In this study, a proposed descriptor based on the improved local ternary patterns (ILTP) that also uses the color properties of rice varieties is presented. Not only gray-scale intensity, but R, G, and B color components of the rice grains are considered. Combining a support vector machine (SVM) with the proposed descriptor for classification of 17 rice varieties planted in Vietnam gives an overall accuracy of 95.53%. To evaluate and compare the effectiveness of the proposed descriptor with other analysis techniques for rice varieties classification, texture descriptors based on local binary pattern and local ternary patterns are combined with SVM to classify these 17 rice varieties. Experiment results show that the classification accuracy from the SVM using the proposed descriptor is significantly higher than using ILTP or other texture descriptors from the literature. This technique can be used to build an automatic system of rice varieties identification and classification.
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