Image segmentation using minimum cross-entropy thresholding

Conference Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1776-1781

  Al Ajlan, Amani ^a   El Zaart, Ali ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Gamma distribution; SAR image; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; IMAGE THRESHOLDING; MINIMUM CROSS ENTROPY; MULTI-MODAL IMAGE; SAR IMAGES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR IMAGES; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING METHODS;

CYBERNETICS; ENTROPY; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

SYNTHETIC APERTURES;

EID: 74849085149     PISSN: 1062922X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSMC.2009.5346619     Document Type: Conference Paper

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