A modified valley-emphasis method for automatic thresholding

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 703-708

  Fan, Jiu Lun ^a,b   Lei, Bo ^a  

^a XIDIAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b XI AN UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Otsu method; Valley point; Valley emphasis method

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; DEFECT DETECTION; IMAGE THRESHOLDING; NEIGHBORHOOD INFORMATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OTSU METHOD; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING METHODS; UNIMODAL; VALLEY POINT; VALLEY-EMPHASIS METHOD;

GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84856768933     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2011.12.009     Document Type: Article

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