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A Robust Cross-Weighted Thresholding Method for Object Extraction in Complex Scenes

Authors: Yue Yu, Jun Tang, Min Xiao, Xuyang Zhang

Published in: Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing | Issue 9/2024

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Traditional thresholding methods are widely used to extract objects of interest from image backgrounds in various practical applications. However, these methods often face challenges in complex scenes due to poor uniformity, noise, and low contrast. To overcome these limitations, this paper proposes a peak-weaken Otsu method (PWOTSU) that improves the segmentation performance of the Otsu method for automatically extracting objects in complex scenes. The proposed approach uses a set of cross parameters as weights for the Otsu criterion function to adaptively weaken the between-class variance at the peak of the histogram. This ensures that an appropriate threshold value is always obtained for images with different types of histogram distribution. The improved criterion function has the advantage of obtaining a more accurate threshold value without the need for additional parameters, making it easily applicable to various practical applications. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively improves the segmentation accuracy and robustness compared to the standard Otsu method and its modifications, as evidenced by qualitative and quantitative evaluations.

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Title: A Robust Cross-Weighted Thresholding Method for Object Extraction in Complex Scenes
Authors: Yue Yu
Jun Tang
Min Xiao
Xuyang Zhang
Publication date: 14-06-2024
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Circuits, Systems, and Signal Processing / Issue 9/2024
Print ISSN: 0278-081X
Electronic ISSN: 1531-5878
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-024-02704-3

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