Advantages of gabor filter

Hi, Can anyone tell me the advantages of GABOR FILTER IMAGE ENHANCEMENT? What are the other image enhancement techniques?

Answer 1

[Stefan]

one great advantage are the invariant properties of the extracted features:

http://personal.lut.fi/users/joni.kamarainen/downloads/publications/IEEETIP2006.pdf

other possibilities can be:

haralick feature

transformations: fourier, wavelet, chebychev (and combinations)

...

depends on your requirements and image data.