On minimum cross-entropy thresholding

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 575-580

  Pal, Nikhil R ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cross entropy; Information; Object extraction; Segmentation; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DATA STRUCTURES; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION THEORY; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PROBABILITY;

COOCCURRENCE MATRIX; CROSS ENTROPY; DATA SETS; GRAY LEVEL HISTOGRAM; THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0030126313     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-3203(95)00111-5     Document Type: Article

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