The Generalized Average Entropy with Applications to some Satellite Image Thresholding

Abstract

This paper suggests a generalization to the average entropy that was introduced by Kittaneh et. al. [The American Statistician 70 (2016) 1]. Some properties of this generalization are studied and a new fully automated entropy-based multi-level image thresholding method with a solid theoretical background is proposed. The method is applied to several real satellite images and compared with the so-called Otsu’s method. The comparative study shows that the proposed method is comparable to Otsu’s method.