Entropy: A New Definition and its Applications

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1991, Pages 1260-1270

  Pal, Nikhil R ^a   Pal, Sankar K ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING - IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; GLOBAL ENTROPY; LOCAL ENTROPY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILISTIC ENTROPY;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 0026226855     PISSN: 00189472     EISSN: 21682909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/21.120079     Document Type: Article

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