Image segmentation by histogram thresholding using fuzzy sets

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1457-1465

  Tobias, Orlando J ^a   Seara, Rui ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SANTA CATARINA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Fuzzy measures; Fuzzy sets; Histogram thresholding; Image segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; COMPUTER VISION; FUZZY SETS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEMBERSHIP FUNCTIONS;

HISTOGRAM THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 0036994113     PISSN: 10577149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2002.806231     Document Type: Article

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