Image thresholding based on random spatial sampling and majority voting

Yi Hong; Hanli Wang; Sam Kwong

doi:10.1109/ICMLC.2010.5580571

Image thresholding based on random spatial sampling and majority voting

Yi Hong
, Hanli Wang
, Sam Kwong

Department of Computer Science

Research output: Chapters, Conference Papers, Creative and Literary Works › RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication) › peer-review

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This paper presents a novel image thresholding algorithm, namely Random spatial sampling and Majority voting based Image Thresholding (RMIT) algorithm. The proposed image thresholding algorithm RMIT firstly obtains a population of thresholded sub-images by using random spatial sampling and the well-known Otsu's image thresholding algorithm, then aggregates all obtained binary sub-images into a consensus binary image via majority voting. Since the sub-images are randomly selected with different sizes ranging from one pixel to the entire image, RMIT can make use of both global and local information for thresholding an image without any prior knowledge about the image. The effectiveness of RMIT is confirmed by experimental results on benchmark real images. © 2010 IEEE.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2010
Pages	746-751
Volume	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ICMLC.2010.5580571
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2010 - Qingdao, China Duration: 11 Jul 2010 → 14 Jul 2010

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Place	China
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Period	11/07/10 → 14/07/10

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Image thresholding
Majority voting
Random spatial sampling

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Image thresholding based on random spatial sampling and majority voting. / Hong, Yi; Wang, Hanli; Kwong, Sam.
2010 International Conference on Machine Learning and Cybernetics, ICMLC 2010. Vol. 2 2010. p. 746-751 5580571.

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