A hierarchical multilevel thresholding method for edge information extraction using fuzzy entropy

International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 297-305

  Guan, Pearl P ^a   Yan, Hong ^a,b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Edge information; Edge similarity; Histogram hierarchy; Maximum fuzzy entropy principle; Multilevel thresholding

Indexed keywords

EDGE INFORMATION; EDGE SIMILARITY; HISTOGRAM HIERARCHY; MAXIMUM FUZZY ENTROPY; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING;

ALGORITHMS; ENTROPY; FORESTRY; GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

EDGE DETECTION;

ALGORITHMS; ENTROPY; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICS; TREES;

EID: 84868112040     PISSN: 18688071     EISSN: 1868808X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13042-011-0063-7     Document Type: Article

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