Multi-scale binarization of images

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 1-3, 2003, Pages 403-411

  Tabbone, Salvatore ^a   Wendling, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Binarization; Gray scale images; Multi scale

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; NONLINEAR FILTERING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HISTOGRAMS; MULTI-SCALE BINARIZATION;

IMAGING TECHNIQUES;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 0037236444     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(02)00265-9     Document Type: Article

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