Shannon, Tsallis And Kaniadakis Entropies In Bi-level Image Thresholding

Author(s): Amelia Carolina Sparavigna

The maximum entropy principle is often used for bi-level or multi-level thresholding of images. For this purpose, some methods are available based on Shannon and Tsallis entropies. In this paper, we discuss them and propose a method based on Kaniadakis entropy.

Kaniadakis Entropy, Image Processing, Image Segmentation, Image Thresholding, Texture Transitions

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