Unsupervised approach to color video thresholding

Optical Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 282-289

  Du, Yingzi ^a   Chang, Chein I ^b   Thouin, Paul David ^c  

^a UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^b University of Marylandw Baltimore County   (United States)

^c ARMED FORCES INSTITUTE OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Color thresholding; Entropy thresholding; Otsu's method; Relative entropy thresholding; RGB color thresholding

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

COLOR THRESHOLDING; ENTROPY THRESHOLDING; GRAY LEVEL THRESHOLDING; TEXT DETECTION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 1942520249     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.1637364     Document Type: Article

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