Multilevel thresholding is one of the most popular image segmentation techniques. This paper presents a new multilevel maximum entropy thresholding method based on modified seeker optimization (MSO) algorithm. In the proposed method the thresholding problem is treated as an optimization problem and solved by using the MSO metaheuristics. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is also imple...

This paper proposes a local adaptive thresholding method based on a water #ow model, in which an image surface is considered as a three-dimensional (3-D) terrain. To extract characters from backgrounds, we pour water onto the terrain surface.Water #ows down to the lower regions of the terrain and "lls valleys. Then, the thresholding process is applied to the amount of "lled water for character ...

Variance-based thresholding method is a very effective technology for image segmentation. However, its performance is limited in traditional one-dimensional and twodimensional scheme. In this paper, a novel two-dimensional variance thresholding scheme to improve image segmentation performance is proposed. The two-dimensional histogram of the original and local average image is projected to one-...

In this paper, two methods are proposed which address the random sampling and compressed sensing recovery problems. The proposed random sampling recovery method is the Iterative Method with Adaptive Thresholding and Interpolation (IMATI). Simulation results indicate that the proposed method outperforms existing random sampling recovery methods such as Iterative Method with Adaptive Thresholding...

Denoising techniques that are based on modifying the transform of an image are considered here. In these techniques, a reversible, linear transform (such as transforms discussed in Chapter 2) is used to map the noisy image into a set of transform coefficients, which are then filtered using a suitable thresholding technique. Fig. 4.1 shows a typical denoising system that uses transform technique...

Image thresholding is a necessary task in some image processing applications. However, due to disturbing factors, e.g. non-uniform illumination, or inherent image vagueness, the result of image thresholding is not always satisfactory. In recent years, various researchers have introduced new thresholding techniques based on fuzzy set theory to overcome this problem. Regarding images as fuzzy set...

Thresholding is one of the popular and fundamental techniques for conducting image segmentation. Many thresholding techniques have been proposed in the literature. Among them, the minimum cross entropy thresholding (MCET) have been widely adopted. Although the MCET method is effective in the bilevel thresholding case, it could be very time-consuming in the multilevel thresholding scenario for m...

This paper studies precision matrix estimation for multiple related Gaussian graphical models from a dataset consisting of different classes, based upon the formulation of this problem as group graphical lasso. In particular, this paper proposes a novel hybrid covariance thresholding algorithm that can effectively identify zero entries in the precision matrices and split a large joint graphical...

The drawback of the conventional multilevel thresholding methods is high computational cost since they do exhaustive search among exponentialy growing number of possible thresholds to optimize the objective functions. In this paper a new multilevel thresholding method based on cuckoo search (CS) algorithm is proposed in order to overcome this obstacle. The optimal thresholds are found by maximi...

Despite the recent advances in developing more effective thresholding methods to convert weighted networks to unweighted counterparts, there are still several limitations that need to be addressed. One such limitation is the inability of the most existing thresholding methods to take into account the topological properties of the original weighted networks during the binarization process, which...