Two-dimensional extension of variance-based thresholding for image segmentation

Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 485-501

  Nie, Fangyan ^a   Wang, Yonglin ^a   Pan, Meisen ^a   Peng, Guanghan ^a   Zhang, Pingfeng ^a  

^a HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Image segmentation; Minimum class variance thresholding; Otsu method; Two dimensional gray level histogram; Variance based thresholding

Indexed keywords

GRAY-LEVEL; MULTILEVEL THRESHOLDING; OTSU METHOD; SEGMENTATION PERFORMANCE; THRESHOLDING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL HISTOGRAM; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SCHEMES; TWO-DIMENSIONAL VARIANCE;

GRAPHIC METHODS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

TWO DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84879687156     PISSN: 09236082     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11045-012-0174-7     Document Type: Article

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