4. Determining Intensity Values for Threshold Thresholding separate foreground pixels from background pixels and can be performed before or after applying a morphological operation to an image. While a threshold operation produces a binary image and rely upon the definition of an intensity value. This intensity value is compared to each pixel value within the image and an output pixel is generated based upon the conditions stated within the threshold.
The result of image segmentation is a set of regions that collectively cover the entire image, or a set of contours extracted from the image (see edge detection ). Each of the pixels in a region are similar with respect to some characteristic or computed property, such as color , intensity , or texture . Adjacent regions are significantly different with respect to the same characteristic(s)