AUTOMATIC THRESHOLDING ALGORITHM AND ITS PERFORMANCE.
Josef Kittler, John Illingworth, J. Föglein, K. Paler · Open Research (University of Surrey) · 1984
A novel method of automatic threshold selection based on a simple image statistic is proposed. The method avoids the analysis of complicated image histograms. The properties of the algorithm are presented and experimentally verified on computer generated and real world images.