Survey and comparative analysis of entropy and relative entropy thresholding techniques

IEE Proceedings: Vision, Image and Signal Processing

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 837-850

  Chang, C I ^a,e   Du, Y ^b   Wang, J ^a   Guo, S M ^c   Thouin, P D ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Department of Defense ^*  (United States)

^e NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR DETECTION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INFORMATION SERVICES; OPTIMIZATION; THRESHOLD ELEMENTS;

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISCREPANCY; SHANNON'S ENTROPY; THRESHOLDING METHODS;

ENTROPY;

EID: 33751538874     PISSN: 1350245X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/ip-vis:20050032     Document Type: Article

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