One of the most frequently used methods in image processing is thresholding
. This can be a highly efficient means of aiding the interpretation of imag
es; A new technique suitable for segmenting both gray-level and color image
s is presented in this paper. The proposed approach is a multithresholding
technique implemented by a Principal Component Analyzer (PCA) and a Kohonen
Self-Organized Feature Map (SOFM) neural network. To speedup the entire mu
ltithresholding algorithm and reduce the memory requirements, a sub-samplin
g technique can be used. Several experimental and comparative results exhib
iting the performance of the proposed technique are presented. (C) 2000 Els
evier Science B.V. All rights reserved.