Journal
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING
Volume 10, Issue 7, Pages 1020-1030Publisher
IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
DOI: 10.1109/83.931096
Keywords
adaptive thresholding; Bayes classifier; image segmentation; multiresolution analysis; target detection; wavelet transforms
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A general systematic method for the detection and segmentation of bright targets is developed in this paper. We use the term bright target to mean a connected, cohesive object which has an average intensity distribution above that of the rest of the image. We develop an analytic model for the segmentation of targets, which uses a novel multiresolution analysis in concert with a Bayes classifier to identify the possible target areas. A method is developed which adaptively chooses thresholds to segment targets from background, by using a multiscale analysis of the image probability density function (PDF), A performance analysis based on a Gaussian distribution model is used to show that the obtained adaptive threshold is often close to the Bayes threshold. The method has proven robust even when the image distribution is unknown. Examples are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of the technique on a variety of targets.
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