New automatic multi-level thresholding technique for segmentation of thermal images

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 23-34

  Chang, Jung Shiong ^a   Mark Liao, Hong Yuan ^c   Hor, Maw Kae ^c   Hsieh, Jun Wei ^b   Chern, Ming Yang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Multi level thresholding; Wavelets

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING); WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

HISTOGRAM; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0030736790     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0262-8856(96)01087-6     Document Type: Article

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