A New Criterion for Automatic Multilevel Thresholding

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 370-378

  Yen, Jui Cheng ^a   Chang, Fu Juay ^a   Chang, Shyang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CORRELATION METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; THRESHOLD LOGIC;

AUTOMATIC MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; MAXIMUM CORRELATION CRITERION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0029276962     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: 19410042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.366472     Document Type: Article

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