Fast image thresholding by finding the zero(s) of the first derivative of between-class variance

Machine Vision and Applications

Volumn 13, Issue 5-6, 2003, Pages 254-262

  Lin, Ku Chin ^a  

^a KUN SHAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS;

FAST IMAGE THRESHOLDING;

IMAGE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037345020     PISSN: 09328092     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00138-002-0082-1     Document Type: Article

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