Survey and comparative analysis of entropy and relative entropy thresholding techniques Export

@article{citeulike:3717793, abstract = {Entropy-based image thresholding has received considerable interest in recent years. Two types of entropy are generally used as thresholding criteria: Shannon's entropy and relative entropy, also known as Kullback-Leibler information distance, where the former measures uncertainty in an information source with an optimal threshold obtained by maximising Shannon's entropy, whereas the latter measures the information discrepancy between two different sources with an optimal threshold obtained by minimising relative entropy. Many thresholding methods have been developed for both criteria and reported in the literature. These two entropy-based thresholding criteria have been investigated and the relationship among entropy and relative entropy thresholding methods has been explored. In particular, a survey and comparative analysis is conducted among several widely used methods that include Pun and Kapur's maximum entropy, Kittler and Illingworth's minimum error thresholding, Pal and Pal's entropy thresholding and Chang et al.'s relative entropy thresholding methods. In order to objectively assess these methods, two measures, uniformity and shape, are used for performance evaluation}, author = {Chang, C. I. and Du, Y. and Wang, J. and Guo, S. M. and Thouin, P. D.}, booktitle = {Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings -}, citeulike-article-id = {3717793}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ip-vis:20050032}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4027996}, doi = {10.1049/ip-vis:20050032}, journal = {Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings -}, keywords = {entropy, information, mutual, theory}, number = {6}, pages = {837--850}, posted-at = {2008-11-27 17:17:03}, priority = {4}, title = {Survey and comparative analysis of entropy and relative entropy thresholding techniques}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ip-vis:20050032}, volume = {153}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3717793 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3717793 N2 - Entropy-based image thresholding has received considerable interest in recent years. Two types of entropy are generally used as thresholding criteria: Shannon's entropy and relative entropy, also known as Kullback-Leibler information distance, where the former measures uncertainty in an information source with an optimal threshold obtained by maximising Shannon's entropy, whereas the latter measures the information discrepancy between two different sources with an optimal threshold obtained by minimising relative entropy. Many thresholding methods have been developed for both criteria and reported in the literature. These two entropy-based thresholding criteria have been investigated and the relationship among entropy and relative entropy thresholding methods has been explored. In particular, a survey and comparative analysis is conducted among several widely used methods that include Pun and Kapur's maximum entropy, Kittler and Illingworth's minimum error thresholding, Pal and Pal's entropy thresholding and Chang et al.'s relative entropy thresholding methods. In order to objectively assess these methods, two measures, uniformity and shape, are used for performance evaluation IS - 6 JF - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings - EP - 850 TI - Survey and comparative analysis of entropy and relative entropy thresholding techniques VL - 153 T2 - Vision, Image and Signal Processing, IEE Proceedings - SP - 837 KW - entropy KW - information KW - mutual KW - theory AU - Chang, CI AU - Du, Y AU - Wang, J AU - Guo, SM AU - Thouin, PD PY - 2006/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1049/ip-vis:20050032 ER -