Characteristic analysis of Otsu threshold and its applications

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 956-961

  Xu, Xiangyang ^a,b   Xu, Shengzhou ^a,b   Jin, Lianghai ^a,b   Song, Enmin ^a,b  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Otsu criterion; Threshold selection

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISTIC ANALYSIS; GRAY LEVELS; OTSU ALGORITHM; OTSU CRITERION; OTSU METHOD; SEARCH RANGE; THRESHOLD SELECTION;

ALGORITHMS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79952091482     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.01.021     Document Type: Article

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