On the use of entropy power for threshold selection

Signal Processing

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1789-1804

  Luthon, Franck ^a   Liévin, Marc ^b   Faux, Francis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^b CENTER OF ADVANCED EUROPEAN STUDIES AND RESEARCH CAESAR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Automatic thresholding; Binarization; Edge detection; Entropic deviation; Gaussian noise; Motion detection

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EDGE DETECTION; FUNCTIONS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOTION ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; THRESHOLD LOGIC;

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING; BINARIZATION; ENTROPIC DEVIATION; MOTION DETECTION;

ENTROPY;

EID: 4444278323     PISSN: 01651684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2004.06.008     Document Type: Article

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