A recursive thresholding technique for image segmentation

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 918-921

  Cheriet, M ^a   Said, J N ^b   Suen, C Y ^b  

^a ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Grey scale images; Image enhancement; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE QUALITY;

OTSU'S METHOD; RECURSIVE THRESHOLDING TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0032095535     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/83.679444     Document Type: Article

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