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==Automatic thresholding==

While in some cases, the threshold <math>T</math> can be selected manually by the user, there are many cases where the user wants the threshold to be automatically set by an algorithm. In those cases, the threshold should be the "best" threshold in the sense that the partition of the pixels above and below the threshold should match as closely as possible the actual partition between the two classes of objects represented by those pixels (e.g., pixels below the threshold should correspond to the background and those above to some objects of interest in the image). Hi, this is an apple :)

Many types of automatic thresholding methods exist, the most famous and widely used being [[Otsu's method]]. The following list, based on the works of [[#Sezgin2004|Sezgin et al. (2004)]] categorizes thresholding methods into broad groups based on the information the algorithm manipulates. Note however that such a categorization is necessarily fuzzy as some methods can fall in several categories (for example, Otsu's method can be both considered a histogram-shape and a clustering algorithm)