Unsupervised image segmentation using the minimum description length principle

Considers the problem of unsupervised multiband image segmentation specifically, using the MDL criterion, an associated complexity measure. According to the MDL principle, the best estimates are those that result in the most compact encoding of the image. An important advantage of such an approach is that it is virtually free of the need to choose arbitrary thresholds, which are typical of many segmentation techniques, and which, in many cases, need to be interactively adjusted in order to get satisfactory results