A thresholding method based on two-dimensional Renyi's entropy

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1149-1161

  Sahoo, Prasanna K ^a   Arora, Gurdial ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE   (United States)

^b XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA   (United States)

Author keywords

Entropic correlation method; Image thresholding; Maximum entropy sum method; Renyi entropy; Shannon entropy; Two dimensional entropic thresholding method; Two dimensional histogram

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

GRAY VALUE; PIXELS; SYNTHETIC IMAGES; THRESHOLDING METHODS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 2142643138     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2003.10.008     Document Type: Article

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