Local phase quantization for blur-insensitive image analysis

► We present a new blur insensitive texture descriptor. ► Descriptors are constructed by quantizing local frequency data. ► The method is assessed in texture and face classification experiments. ► We show clear improvements over LBP, Gabor, VZ-MR8, VZ-joint, and BIF columns. ► Descriptors give the best results in the case of both sharp and blurred images.