Adaptive Threshold parameters confusion

Question

Can anyone please tell me what are the parameters in these Adaptive Threshold functions and how are they controlling black and white pixels.

cv2.adaptiveThreshold(img,255,cv2.ADAPTIVE_THRESH_MEAN_C,\
            cv2.THRESH_BINARY,11,2)
th3 = cv2.adaptiveThreshold(img,255,cv2.ADAPTIVE_THRESH_GAUSSIAN_C,\
            cv2.THRESH_BINARY,11,2)

Answer 1

Python: cv2.adaptiveThreshold(src, maxValue, adaptiveMethod, thresholdType, blockSize, C[, dst]) → dst

Parameters:

src – Source 8-bit single-channel image.
dst – Destination image of the same size and the same type as src .
maxValue – Non-zero value assigned to the pixels for which the condition is satisfied. See the details below.
adaptiveMethod – Adaptive thresholding algorithm to use, ADAPTIVE_THRESH_MEAN_C or ADAPTIVE_THRESH_GAUSSIAN_C . See the details below.
thresholdType – Thresholding type that must be either THRESH_BINARY or THRESH_BINARY_INV .
blockSize – Size of a pixel neighborhood that is used to calculate a threshold value for the pixel: 3, 5, 7, and so on.
C – Constant subtracted from the mean or weighted mean (see the details below). Normally, it is positive but may be zero or negative as well.

Taken from here: and it also explains the method in a lot more detail.