Ridler and Calvard's, Kittler and Illingworth's and Otsu's methods for image thresholding

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 793-797

  Xue, Jing Hao ^a   Zhang, Yu Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Discriminant analysis; Image thresholding; Iterative selection; Minimum error thresholding; Mixture of Gaussian distributions; Otsu's method

Indexed keywords

IMAGE THRESHOLDING; ITERATIVE SELECTION; MINIMUM ERROR THRESHOLDING; OTSU'S METHOD;

PATTERN RECOGNITION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84862779568     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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