Title :
Improved Co-occurrence Matrix as a Feature Space for Relative Entropy-based Image Thresholding
Author :
El-Feghi, I. ; Adem, N. ; Sid-Ahmed, M.A. ; Ahmadi, M.
Author_Institution :
Higher Ind. Inst., Misurata
Abstract :
In this paper, a thresholding technique suitable for noisy background images is proposed. The proposed algorithm uses an improved co-occurrence matrix as feature spaces. The threshold value is obtained by maximizing the relative entropy. Experimental results show that the proposed method outperforms other thresholding techniques especially on the presences of noise in the background of the input image.
Keywords :
image segmentation; matrix algebra; co-occurrence matrix; feature space; noisy background image; relative entropy-based image thresholding; Background noise; Character recognition; Computer graphics; Computer industry; Entropy; Image processing; Image segmentation; Optical character recognition software; Pixel; Visualization; cooccurrence; image thresholding; matrix; relative entropy;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Graphics, Imaging and Visualisation, 2007. CGIV '07
Conference_Location :
Bangkok
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2928-3
DOI :
10.1109/CGIV.2007.49