A novel image thresholding method based on Parzen window estimate

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-129

  Wang, Shitong ^a,b   Chung, Fu lai ^b   Xiong, Fusong ^a  

^a JIANGNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Parzen window; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; ENTROPY; MOTION ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

IMAGE VALUES; MET METHOD; THRESHOLDING METHOD; WINDOW ESTIMATE;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 34548017884     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2007.03.029     Document Type: Article

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