%0 Journal Article %A S. Ratna Sulistiyanti and Adhi Susanto and Thomas Sri Widodo and Gede Bayu Suparta %D 2010 %J International Journal of Electronics and Communication Engineering %B World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology %I Open Science Index 48, 2010 %T Histogram Slicing to Better Reveal Special Thermal Objects %U https://publications.waset.org/pdf/13498 %V 48 %X In this paper, an experimentation to enhance the visibility of hot objects in a thermal image acquired with ordinary digital camera is reported, after the applications of lowpass and median filters to suppress the distracting granular noises. The common thresholding and slicing techniques were used on the histogram at different gray levels, followed by a subjective comparative evaluation. The best result came out with the threshold level 115 and the number of slices 3. %P 1825 - 1827