Cloud Model-Based Method for Infrared Image Thresholding

Table 2

Thresholds (), misclassified pixels (MP), ME values, and running times (RT) obtained by selected methods and the proposed method.

Image	Method
	Otsu	Hou	Li	Xue	Kittler	Kapur	Ramesh	Our method
Airplane
	53	44	135	45	34	117	114	133
MP	18312	23154	242	22666	26473	201	336	234
ME	0.2794	0.3533	0.0036	0.3458	0.4039	0.0031	0.0051	0.0035
RT (s)	0.119895	0.125463	0.121684	0.843127	—	—	—	0.131788
Person
	108	116	160	111	154	153	154	225
MP	27227	20663	1097	24365	963	963	963	184
ME	0.2801	0.2125	0.0112	0.2506	0.0099	0.0099	0.0099	0.0018
RT (s)	0.119309	0.127476	0.121449	1.464618	—	—	—	0.133256
Boat
	94	75	164	86	146	130	151	207
MP	15630	22289	215	18963	895	1652	659	317
ME	0.5243	0.7477	0.0072	0.6361	0.0301	0.0554	0.0221	0.0106
RT (s)	0.119085	0.124232	0.120860	0.496241	—	—	—	0.131623
Star
	113	126	121	115	35	153	119	83
MP	47125	56676	54310	48266	32495	76052	58180	14926
ME	0.4224	0.5081	0.4868	0.4326	0.2912	0.6817	0.5215	0.1337
RT (s)	0.119017	0.125376	0.121557	1.711368	—	—	—	0.133964
irw101
	57	44	172	54	103	153	137	210
MP	50669	59316	41	53397	3252	124	642	4
ME	0.6597	0.7723	0.0005	0.6952	0.0423	0.0016	0.0083	5.21E − 05
RT (s)	0.119579	0.126232	0.121975	1.152923	—	—	—	0.133889
irw102
	56	44	169	52	103	153	137	212
MP	51369	58720	55	54401	3080	124	626	14
ME	0.6688	0.7645	0.0007	0.7083	0.0401	0.0016	0.0081	0.0001
RT (s)	0.119248	0.125052	0.122033	1.149296	—	—	—	0.132815
irin011
	136	232	192	60	86	102	118	217
MP	567	849	655	30066	2136	955	955	754
ME	0.0073	0.0111	0.0085	0.3914	0.0278	0.0124	0.0124	0.0098
RT (s)	0.119136	0.125602	0.121678	1.156888	—	—	—	0.132685
irin012
	66	241	194	64	0	119	127	220
MP	28185	117	179	31137	75017	635	635	109
ME	0.3669	0.0015	0.0023	0.4054	0.9767	0.0082	0.0082	0.0014
RT (s)	0.118951	0.125435	0.121646	1.165576	—	—	—	0.135214