thresOtsu

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Name

thresOtsu - threshold by the method of Otsu

Syntax

 #include <xite/threshold.h>

 int thresOtsu( histogram h );

Description

thresOtsu calculates the threshold value needed to threshold the image that the histogram h is created from, according to the method of Otsu. The actual thresholding is not performed, see the "threshold" routine.

Reference

Otsu, N.
"A Threshold Selection Method from Gray-Level histograms" IEEE Trans. Syst., Man and Cyb., Vol SMC-9, No.1, pp.62-66.

Return value

The threshold value.

See also

thresOtsu(1), threshold(3), thresholdSpOut(3), thresPtile(3), thresRidCal(3), thresLloyd(3)

Author

Tor Lønnestad, BLAB, Ifi, UiO

Id

$Id: thresOtsu.c,v 1.20 1997/01/14 13:11:08 svein Exp $