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thresholding

thresholding noun: the process of creating a black-and-white image out of a grayscale image by setting exactly those pixels to white whose value is above a given threshold, and setting the other pixels to black.

thresholding: the process of creating a black-and-white image out of a grayscale image by setting exactly those...
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Noun

thresholding (uncountable)

  1. (image processing) The process of creating a black-and-white image out of a grayscale image by setting exactly those pixels to white whose value is above a given threshold, and setting the other pixels to black.

Origin of thresholding

From threshold + -ing.

Questions about thresholding

What does thresholding mean?
Thresholding means the process of creating a black-and-white image out of a grayscale image by setting exactly those pixels to white whose value is above a given threshold, and setting the other pixels to black.
What part of speech is thresholding?
Thresholding is a noun.

Words near thresholding in the dictionary

  1. threshold worker
  2. threshold workers
  3. thresholded
  4. thresholder
  5. thresholders
  6. thresholding
  7. thresholdless
  8. thresholdlike
  9. thresholds
  10. threskiornithid
  11. threskiornithids

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