Automatic selection and fusion of color spaces for image thresholding

Automatic selection of color models has a great significance for machine vision purposes like image segmentation, object recognition, etc. Typically, selection of a proper color model is a problem that can just solve by testing the models on the target one by one. To achieve a proper color model, in this article, we propose a new method which is shaped on the basis of clustering and relation among models. The proposed method is verified experimentally for two different images (in thresholding purpose). The experimental results show that this method has a suitable power for automatic purposes.

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