Transition pixel: A concept for binarization based on edge detection and gray-intensity histograms

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1233-1243

  Ramírez Ortegón, Marte A ^a   Tapia, Ernesto ^a   Ramírez Ramírez, Lilia L ^b   Rojas, Raúl ^a   Cuevas, Erik ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUADALAJARA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Binarization; Edge detection; Image pre processing; Integral image; Thresholding; Transition function

Indexed keywords

BINARIZATION; BINARIZATIONS; IMAGE PREPROCESSING; INTEGRAL IMAGES; TRANSITION FUNCTIONS;

EDGE DETECTION; FLIP FLOP CIRCUITS;

PIXELS;

EID: 74449092341     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2009.11.006     Document Type: Article

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