Introduction to LBP: New Variants and New Applications by Sheryl Brahnam, Lakhmi C. Jain, Alessandra Lumini, Loris Nanni -- A Unifying Framework for LBP and Related Methods, Francesco Bianconi and Antonio Fernández -- Local Phase Quantization for Blur Insensitive Texture Description, Janne Heikkilä, Esa Rahtu, and Ville Ojansivu -- The Geometric Local Textural Patterns (GLTP) Technique, S. A. Orjuela Vargas, J. P. Yañez Puentes, and W. Philips -- Local Configuration Features and Discriminative Learnt Features for Texture Description, Yimo Guo, Guoying Zhao, and Matti Pietikäinen -- Heterogeneous Ensemble of Classifiers for Sub-Cellular Image Classification Based on Local Ternary Patterns, Loris Nanni, Michelangeo Paci, and Stefano Severi -- Fuzzy Local Binary Patterns, Stamos Katsigiannis, Eystratios Keramidas, Dimitris Maroulis -- Ensemble of Local Phase Quantization Variants with Ternary Encoding, Loris Nanni, Sheryl Brahnam, Alessandra Lumini, and Tonya Barrier -- State-of-the-Art LBP Descriptor for Face Recognition, Cho Ho Chan, Josef Kittler, and Norman Poh -- Thermal Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environments Using Histograms of LBP Features, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Gabriel Hermosilla, and Mauricio Correa -- Histogram-Tensorial Gaussian Representations and its Applications to Facial Analysis, John A. Ruiz Hernandez, James L. Crowley, Augustin Lux, and Matti Pietikäinen.