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http://dx.doi.org/10.17661/jkiiect.2019.12.3.179

Low Complexity Image Thresholding Based on Block Type Classification for Implementation of the Low Power Feature Extraction Algorithm  

Lee, Juseong (School of Electrical Engineering, Korea University)
An, Ho-Myoung (Department of Electronics, Osan University)
Kim, Byungcheul (Department of Electronic Engineering, Gyeongnam National University of Science and Technology)
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The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology / v.12, no.3, 2019 , pp. 179-185 More about this Journal
Abstract
This paper proposes a block-type classification based image binarization for the implementation of the low-power feature extraction algorithm. The proposed method can be implemented with threshold value re-use technique approach when the image divided into $64{\times}64$ macro blocks size and calculating the threshold value for each block type only once. The algorithm is validated based on quantitative results that only a threshold value change rate of up to 9% occurs within the same image/block type. Existing algorithms should compute the threshold value for 64 blocks when the macro block is divided by $64{\times}64$ on the basis of $512{\times}512$ images, but all suggestions can be made only once for best cases where the same block type is printed, and for the remaining 63 blocks, the adaptive threshold calculation can be reduced by only performing a block type classification process. The threshold calculation operation is performed five times when all block types occur, and only the block type separation process can be performed for the remaining 59 blocks, so 93% adaptive threshold calculation operation can be reduced.
Keywords
Adaptive threholding; block type classification; high-throughput signal processing; low-complexity signal processing; low-power image processing;
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