Abstract
Image segmentation by thresholding is an important and fundamental task in image processing and computer vision. In this paper, a new bi-level thresholding approach based on weighted Parzen-window and linear programming techniques is proposed to use in image thresholding segmentation. First, by proposing a weighted Parzen-window to describe the gray level distribution status, we obtain the boundaries for the foreground and background of the image. Then the image thresholding problem can be transformed into the problem of solving a linear programming problem for computing the coefficient values of weighted Parzen-window. The results of testing on synthetic, NDT and a set of benchmark images indicate that the proposed method can achieve a higher segmentation accuracy and robustness in comparison to some classical thresholding methods, such as inter class variance method (OTSU), Kapur’s entropy-based method (KSW), and some state-of-art methods that consider spatial information, such as CHPSO, GLLV histogram method and GABOR histogram method.
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