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http://dx.doi.org/10.5391/JKIIS.2016.26.6.485

An adaptive Fuzzy Binarization  

Jeon, Wang-Su (Dept. of IT Convergence Engineering, Kyungnam University)
Rhee, Sang-Yong (Dept. of Computer Engineering, Kyungnam University)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems / v.26, no.6, 2016 , pp. 485-492 More about this Journal
Abstract
A role of the binarization is very important in separating the foreground and the background in the field of the computer vision. In this study, an adaptive fuzzy binarization is proposed. An ${\alpha}$-cut control ratio is obtained by the distribution of grey level of pixels in a sliding window, and binarization is performed using the value. To obtain the ${\alpha}$-cut, existing thresholding methods which execution speed is fast are used. The threshold values are set as the center of each membership function and the fuzzy intervals of the functions are specified with the distribution of grey level of the pixel. Then ${\alpha}$-control ratio is calculated using the specified function and binarization is performed according to the membership degree of the pixels. The experimental results show the proposed method can segment the foreground and the background well than existing binarization methods and decrease loss of the foreground.
Keywords
Adaptive Fuzzy Binarization; Fuzzy Membership Funicotns; Integral Image; Image Processing; Threshold;
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