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Vol: 54(68) No: 1 / March 2009      

Automatic Parametrisation of Image Processing Algorithms
Szabolcs Sergyán
Department of Software Technology, Budapest Tech, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Bécsi út 96/b, H-1034 Budapest, Hungary, phone: (361) 666-5540, e-mail: sergyan.szabolcs@nik.bmf.hu, web: http://nik.bmf.hu/sergyan
László Csink
Department of Software Technology, Budapest Tech, John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics, Bécsi út 96/b, H-1034 Budapest, Hungary, phone: (361) 666-5581, e-mail: csink.laszlo@nik.bmf.hu, web: http://nik.bmf.hu/csink


Keywords: automated parameter determination, image databases, image segmentation, edge detection

Abstract
The most frequently used image processing algorithms normally use parameters. The results depend on these parameters to a great degree. Normally the parameters are optimized to a set of given images, and then they use the set parameters for each new image. In many cases this can be done easily, as for a given type of images the best parameters are the same. However, when one works with a huge image database, one cannot optimize the parameters for each image. In such a case one makes a compromise, and uses parameters that fit for most images. It would be better, though, to try to find the optimal parameters for each image. In this paper we discuss two automatic parameterization algorithms, one for image segmentation and another one for edge detection.

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