An improved method for image thresholding based on the valley-emphasis method

2013 Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, APSIPA 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ng, Hui Fuang ^a,b   Jargalsaikhan, Davaajargal ^b   Tsai, Hao Chuan ^c   Lin, Chih Yang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TUNKU ABDUL RAHMAN   (Malaysia)

^b ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TZU CHI COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC THRESHOLD SELECTION; IMAGE THRESHOLDING; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD; THRESHOLD SELECTION; THRESHOLDING; THRESHOLDING IMAGES; WEIGHTING SCHEME;

DATA PROCESSING; GRAPHIC METHODS;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84893276948     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSIPA.2013.6694261     Document Type: Conference Paper

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