A recurring problem in adaptive filtering is selection of control measures for parameter modification. A number of methods reported thus far have used localized order statistics to adaptively adjust filter parameters. The most effective techniques are based on edge detection as a decision mechanism to allow the preservation of edge information while noise is filtered. In general, decision-directed adaptive filters operate on a localized area within an image by using statistics of the area as a discrimination parameter. Typically, adaptive filters are based on pixel to pixel variations within a localized area that are due to either edges or additive noise. In homogeneous areas within the image where variances are due to additive noise, the filter should operate to reduce the noise. Using an edge detection technique, a decision directed adaptive filter can vary the filtering proportional to the amount of edge information detected.We show an approach using an entropy measure on edges to differentiate between variations in the image due to edge information as compared against noise. The method uses entropy calculated against the spatial contour variations of edges in the window.
A new adaptive thresholding technique is presented that maximizes the contour edge information within an image. Early work by Attneave suggested that visual information in images is concentrated at theThe information content of curves is easily illustrated with Attneav&s famous "Cheshire Cat", example. He showed that the information associated with a contour is not uniformly distributed along a curve, but concentrates at certain points of extrema. He further concluded that the information associated with these points and their nearby neighbors is essential for image perception. Resnikoff has suggested a measurement of information gain in terms of direction.2 This measurement determines information gained from a measure of an angle direction along image contours relative to other measures of information gain for other positions along the curve. Hence, one form of information measure is the angular entropy of contours within an image.Our adaptive thresholding algorithm begins by varying the threshold value between a minimum and a maximum threshold value and then computing the total contour entropy over the entire binarized edge image. Next, the threshold value that yields the highest contour entropy is selected as the optimum threshold value. It is at this threshold value that the binarized image contains the greatest amount of image features.
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