ThispaperproposeslocalGaborXORpatterns(LGXP),whichencodestheGaborphasebyusingthelocalXORpattern(LXP)operator.Then,wein-troduceblock-basedFisher’slineardiscriminant(BFLD)toreducethedimensionalityoftheproposeddescriptorandatthesametimeenhanceitsdiscriminativepower.