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PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
Volume 26, Issue 8, Pages 1082-1095Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2004.10.003
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multi-level thresholding; Otsu's method; Gaussian curve fitting; Nelder Mead simplex search method; particle swarm optimization
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The Otsu's method has been proven as an efficient method in image segmentation for bi-level thresholding. However, this method is computationally intensive when extended to multi-level thresholding. In this paper, we present a hybrid optimization scheme for multiple thresholding by the criteria of (1) Otsu's minimum within-group variance and (2) Gaussian function fitting. Four example images are used to test and illustrate the three different methods: the Otsu's method; the NM-PSO-Otsu method, which is the Otsu's method with Nelder-Mead simplex search and particle swarm optimization; the NM-PSO-curve method, which is Gaussian curve fitting by Nelder-Mead simplex search and particle swarm optimization. The experimental results show that the NM-PSO-Otsu could expedite the Otsu's method efficiently to a great extent in the case of multi-level thresholding, and that the NM-PSO-curve method could provide better effectiveness than the Otsu's method in the context of visualization, object size and image contrast. (c) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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