This document presents the completed local binary pattern (CLBP) operator for texture classification. CLBP generalizes and completes the local binary pattern (LBP) by using a local difference sign-magnitude transform to encode the missing texture information not captured by LBP. The CLBP operator fuses three codes - CLBP_C for the center pixel, CLBP_S for the signs of differences, and CLBP_M for the magnitudes. Experiments on the Outex texture database show CLBP achieves much better classification accuracy than LBP and other state-of-the-art methods.