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http://dx.doi.org/10.5391/JKIIS.2007.17.6.725

Multilevel Threshold Selection Method Based on Gaussian-Type Finite Mixture Distributions  

Seo, Suk-T. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Lee, In-K. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Jeong, Hye-C. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Kwon, Soon-H. (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Yeungnam University)
Publication Information
Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems / v.17, no.6, 2007 , pp. 725-730 More about this Journal
Abstract
Gray-level histogram-based threshold selection methods such as Otsu's method, Huang and Wang's method, and etc. have been widely used for the threshold selection in image processing. They are simple and effective, but take too much time to determine the optimal multilevel threshold values as the number of thresholds are increased. In this paper, we measure correlation between gray-levels by using the Gaussian function and define a Gaussian-type finite mixture distribution which is combination of the Gaussian distribution function with the gray-level histogram, and propose a fast and effective threshold selection method using it. We show the effectiveness of the proposed through experimental results applied it to three images and the efficiency though comparison of the computational complexity of the proposed with that of Otsu's method.
Keywords
Otsu's threshold selection; Multilevel threshold; Gaussian-type finite mixture distribution;
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