Median-based image thresholding

Image and Vision Computing

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 631-637

  Xue, Jing Hao ^a   Titterington, D Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Image thresholding; Laplace distributions; Mean absolute deviation from the median (MAD); Minimum error thresholding (MET); Otsu's method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; LAPLACE TRANSFORMS;

IMAGE THRESHOLDING; LAPLACE DISTRIBUTIONS; MEAN ABSOLUTE DEVIATIONS; MINIMUM ERROR THRESHOLDING; OTSU'S METHOD;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 79960474471     PISSN: 02628856     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2011.06.003     Document Type: Letter

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