Unsupervised range-constrained thresholding

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 392-402

  Li, Zuoyong ^a   Yang, Jian ^b   Liu, Guanghai ^c   Cheng, Yong ^d   Liu, Chuancai ^b  

^a MINJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c GUANGXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d NANJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Human visual perception; Image segmentation; Standard deviation; Thresholding; Unsupervised estimation

Indexed keywords

GRAY LEVELS; HUMAN VISUAL PERCEPTION; IMAGE THRESHOLDING; IMAGE TRANSFORMATIONS; KEY ISSUES; NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; ORIGINAL IMAGES; STANDARD DEVIATION; STATISTICAL CHARACTERISTICS; THRESHOLD SELECTION; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING METHODS; TRANSFORMATION PROCESS; UNSUPERVISED ESTIMATION;

ESTIMATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; STATISTICS; VISION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 78649320439     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2010.09.020     Document Type: Article

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