A novel histogram transformation to improve the performance of thresholding methods in edge detection

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 676-693

  Medina Carnicer, R ^a   Munoz Salinas R ^a   Carmona Poyato, A ^a   Madrid Cuevas, F J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Edge detection; Histogram and edge sensitivity; Thresholding

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EDGE POINT; GRADIENT IMAGES; HISTOGRAM AND EDGE SENSITIVITY; HISTOGRAM THRESHOLDING; OTSU METHOD; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING METHODS; UNIMODAL;

EDGE DETECTION; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

GRAPHIC METHODS;

EID: 78751647582     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2010.12.012     Document Type: Article

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