bin_thresholdbin_thresholdBinThresholdBinThreshold (Operator)

Name

bin_thresholdbin_thresholdBinThresholdBinThreshold — Segment an image using an automatically determined threshold.

Warning

bin_thresholdbin_thresholdBinThresholdBinThresholdBinThreshold is obsolete and is only provided for reasons of backward compatibility. New applications should use the operator binary_thresholdbinary_thresholdBinaryThresholdBinaryThresholdBinaryThreshold instead.

Signature

Description

bin_thresholdbin_thresholdBinThresholdBinThresholdBinThreshold segments a single-channel gray value image using an automatically determined threshold. First, the relative histogram of the gray values is determined. Then, relevant minima are extracted from the histogram, which are used as parameters for a thresholding operation. In order to reduce the number of minima, the histogram is smoothed with a Gaussian, as in auto_thresholdauto_thresholdAutoThresholdAutoThresholdAutoThreshold. The mask size is enlarged until there is only one minimum in the smoothed histogram. The selected region contains the pixels with gray values from 0 to the minimum or for real images from the smallest value to the respective minimum. This operator is, for example useful for the segmentation of dark characters on a light paper.

Execution Information

• Multithreading type: reentrant (runs in parallel with non-exclusive operators).
• Multithreading scope: global (may be called from any thread).
• Automatically parallelized on tuple level.
• Automatically parallelized on internal data level.

Parameters

read_image (Image, 'letters')
bin_threshold (Image, Seg)
connection (Seg, Connected)

read_image(&Image,"letters");
bin_threshold(Image,&Seg);
connection(Seg,&Connected);
set_shape(WindowHandle,"rectangle1");
set_colored(WindowHandle,6);
disp_region(Connected,WindowHandle);

read_image (Image, 'letters')
bin_threshold (Image, Seg)
connection (Seg, Connected)

read_image (Image, 'letters')
bin_threshold (Image, Seg)
connection (Seg, Connected)

read_image (Image, 'letters')
bin_threshold (Image, Seg)
connection (Seg, Connected)

Module

Foundation