Clustering Edge Values for Threshold Selection

Abstract

Thresholds may be chosen for images containing several object classes by clustering thinned edge points in a 2-D histogram, whose axes represent gray level value and edge value. Each such edge cluster suggests its average gray level as a threshold. Interior clusters may also be defined as representatives of object class interiors. The relation of edge clusters to interior clusters gives rise to a classification strategy based on partitioning the 2-D histogram into disjoint regions labelled as to object class. Each partition is a classification domain for points of the original gray level image.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA049592

Entities

People

  • David L. Milgram
  • Martin Herman

Organizations

  • University of Maryland

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  • Counter IED

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Boundaries
  • Change Detection
  • Classification
  • Clustering
  • Computer Science
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Digital Images
  • Histograms
  • Image Processing
  • Image Recognition
  • Images
  • Night Vision
  • Numbers
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Two Dimensional
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Regression Analysis.