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Image Processing
Dr Mohammad Raad
The evidence provided by the author to support the conclusions of the paper.
A) Selecting one optimal threshold:
Formulation:
Image pixels are represented in gray levels denoted as L, number of pixels at level i
is denoted by ni thus the total number of pixels N= n1+n2++nL
The gray-level histogram is normalized and observed as a probability distribution
having this formula
The following discriminant criterion measures (or measures of class separation) used in
the discriminant analysis to evaluate the "goodness" of the threshold (at level k):
The best threshold k* that maximizes the mean, or equivalently maximizes the variance of
(14) is selected in the following consecutive search by using the simple cumulative quantities
(6) and (7), or explicitly (6) using (2)-(5):
The range of k over which the maximum is required can be restricted to
If the number of classes increase it will become more and more complicated, this method is
very simple for M=2 and M=3.
The level to which the solution addresses the problem
Experimental Results:
Image size: 64x64
Fig1-3 specifications
Figures (a) and (e): Original gray-scale image
Figures (b) and (f): Result of thresholding
Figures (c) and (g): set of the gray-scale histogram
Figures (d) and (h): result obtained by the analysis
Figure1: Application to characters, L=16
This experiment is an application for identical character typewritten in different ways.
The parts of the problem that the authors say need further study and why.
It is difficult to apply more than three-thresholds.
A lot of experimental results on several examples have been applied show that the current method is
derived theoretically, is of satisfactory practical use.
In Figures1 and 2 we can see that the criterion is always smooth and unimodal, the hard proof of the
unimodality has not yet been obtained
The method suggested in this correspondence may be recommended as the most simple and standard
one for automatic threshold selection that can be applied to various practical problems.