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In this paper we propose a method to compute intensity threshold by modifying Otsu‘s method. We replace the between-class mean by standard deviation. The proposed method produce binary images with sharp edges than Otsu‘s method.
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Somasundaram, K., Genish, T. (2012). Modified Otsu Thresholding Technique. In: Balasubramaniam, P., Uthayakumar, R. (eds) Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computation. ICMMSC 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 283. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28926-2_49
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