Image segmentation based on gray level and local relative entropy two dimensional histogram

Wei Yang, Lulu Cai and Fei Wu

PLOS ONE, 2020, vol. 15, issue 3, 1-9

Abstract: Though traditional thresholding methods are simple and efficient, they may result in poor segmentation results because only image’s brightness information is taken into account in the procedure of threshold selection. Considering the contextual information between pixels can improve segmentation accuracy. To to this, a new thresholding method is proposed in this paper. The proposed method constructs a new two dimensional histogram using brightness of a pixel and local relative entropy of it’s neighbor pixels. The local relative entropy (LRE) measures the brightness difference between a pixel and it’s neighbor pixels. The two dimensional histogram, consisting of gray level and LRE, can reflect the contextual information between pixels to a certain extent. The optimal thresholding vector is obtained via minimizing cross entropy criteria. Experimental results show that the proposed method can achieve more accurate segmentation results than other thresholding methods.

Date: 2020
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