In thispaper,anefficient localoperator,namelytheLocalQuantizationCode(LQC),isproposedfor.textureclassification. Theconventionallocalbinarypatterncanberegardedasaspeciallocalquanti-.zation methodwithtwolevels,0and1.SomevariantsoftheLBPdemonstratethatincreasingthelocal.quantizationlevelcanenhancethelo