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Image threshold using a-ifss based on bounded histograms. (English) Zbl 1202.68457

Melin, Patricia (ed.) et al., Foundations of fuzzy logic and soft computing. 12th International Fuzzy Systems Association world congress, IFSA 2007, Cancun, Mexico, June 18–21, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-3-540-72917-4/pbk). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4529. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 96-103 (2007).
Summary: Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy sets (A-IFSs) have been used recently to determine the optimal threshold value for gray-level image segmentation. Atanassov’s intuitionistic fuzzy index values are used for representing the unknowledge/ignorance of an expert on determining whether a pixel of the image belongs to the background or the object of the image. This optimal global threshold of the image is computed automatically, regardless of the actual image analysis process.
Although global optimal thresholding techniques give good results under experimental conditions, when dealing with real images having several objects and the segmentation purpose is to point out some application-specific information, one should use heuristic techniques in order to obtain better thresholding results.
This paper introduces an evolution of the above mentioned technique intended for use with such images. The proposed approach takes into account the image and segmentation specificities by using a two-step procedure, with a restricted set of the image gray-levels.
Preliminary experimental results and comparison with other methods are presented.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1121.03006].

MSC:

68U10 Computing methodologies for image processing
68T10 Pattern recognition, speech recognition
94A08 Image processing (compression, reconstruction, etc.) in information and communication theory
94D05 Fuzzy sets and logic (in connection with information, communication, or circuits theory)
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