Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.6109/jkiice.2016.20.10.1852

Improved Fuzzy Binarization Method with Trapezoid type Membership Function and Adaptive α_cut  

Woo, Hyun-su (Gyeonggi Science High School for the Gifted)
Kim, Kwang-baek (Department of Computer Engineering, Silla University)
Abstract
The effectiveness of a binarization algorithm in image processing depends on how to eliminate the uncertainty of determining threshold in a reasonable way and on minimizing information loss due to the binarization effect. Fuzzy binarization technique was proposed to handle that uncertainty with fuzzy logic. However, that method is known to be inefficient when the given image has low intensity contrast. In this paper, we propose an improved fuzzy binarization method to overcome such known drawbacks. Our method proposes a trapezoid type fuzzy membership function instead of most-frequently used triangle type one. We also propose an adaptive ${\alpha}$_cut determination policy. Our proposed method has less information loss than other algorithms since we do not use any stretching based preprocessing for enhancing the intensity contrast. In experiment, our proposed method is verified to be more effective in binarization with less information loss for many different types of images with low intensity contrast such as night scenery, lumber scoliosis, and lipoma images.
Keywords
Fuzzy binarization; Information loss; Stretching; Trapezoid type membership function;
Citations & Related Records
Times Cited By KSCI : 4  (Citation Analysis)
연도 인용수 순위
1 S. M. Maillet and Y. M. Sharaiha, Binary Digital Image Processing, Academic Press, San Diego, Dec.1999.
2 K. B. Kim, "A Study on Image Binarization using Intensity Information," Journal of The Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 721-726, June 2004.
3 K. B. Kim, M. H. Kim, and Y. Y. Lho, "Character Extraction of Car License Plate using RGB Color Information and Fuzzy Binarization," Journal of Korean Institute of Maritime Information & Communication Sciences, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 80-87, January 2004.
4 I. J. Kim, "An Adaptive Binarization of Camera Document Image by Image Quality Estimation," Journal of KIISE, vol. 34, no. 9, pp. 797-803, Sep. 2007.
5 K. B. Kim and Y. J. Kim, "Enhanced Binarization Method using Fuzzy Membership Function," Journal of Korea Society of Computer and Information, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 67-72, Jan. 2005.
6 K. B. Kim, "ART2 Based Fuzzy Binarization Method with Low Information Loss," The Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering, vol. 18, no. 6, pp. 1269-1274, Jun. 2014.   DOI
7 Y. ZHANG and L. WU, "Fast Document Image Binarization Based on an Improved Adaptive Otsu''s Method and Destination Word Accumulation," Journal of Computational Information Systems, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 1886-1892, June 2011.
8 C. H. Lee, Y. T. Jeong, H. C. Kim, and H. S. Yoo, "Comparison of Physique, Physical Fitness and Mental Health between Spinal Scoliotic and Normal Students," Journal of Physical Growth and Motor Development, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 87-94, May 2006.
9 H. J. Yoo, "Sonographic Features of Common Soft Tissue Masses in the Extremities," Journal of Korean Orthop Assoc, vol. 49, no. 6, pp. 422-430, Dec. 2014.   DOI