Image thresholding based on Ali-Silvey distance measures

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1161-1174

  Ramac, Liane C ^a   Varshney, Pramod K ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ali silvey distance measures; Co occurrence matrix; Image processing; Relative entropy; Segmentation; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; DISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

ALI SILVEY DISTANCE MEASUREMENT;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0031188373     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-3203(96)00149-5     Document Type: Article

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