Multilevel thresholding for image segmentation through a fast statistical recursive algorithm

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 119-125

  Arora, S ^a   Acharya, J ^b   Verma, A ^c   Panigrahi, Prasanta K ^c  

^a DHIRUBHAI AMBANI INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^c PHYSICAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Histogram; Image segmentation; Multilevel thresholding; Recursion; Sub range

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; IMAGE QUALITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HISTOGRAMS; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; STATISTICAL RECURSIVE ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 36248951177     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.09.005     Document Type: Article

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