Optimal multilevel thresholding using bacterial foraging algorithm

PD Sathya, R Kayalvizhi - Expert Systems with Applications, 2011 - Elsevier
The conventional multilevel thresholding methods are efficient for bi-level thresholding.
However, they are computationally expensive extending to multilevel thresholding since …

Multilevel thresholding using an improved cuckoo search algorithm for image segmentation

L Duan, S Yang, D Zhang - The Journal of Supercomputing, 2021 - Springer
Multilevel thresholding image segmentation is an important technique, which has attracted
much attention in recent years. The conventional exhaustive search method for image …

A study on particle swarm optimization and artificial bee colony algorithms for multilevel thresholding

B Akay - Applied Soft Computing, 2013 - Elsevier
Segmentation is a critical task in image processing. Bi-level segmentation involves dividing
the whole image into partitions based on a threshold value, whereas multilevel …

Fast automatic multilevel thresholding method

L Cao, ZK Shi, EKW Cheng - Electronics Letters, 2002 - IET
Previous optimal thresholding methods are popular and efficient in the case of bi-level
thresholding but are computationally expensive when extended to multilevel thresholding to …

An efficient iterative algorithm for image thresholding

L Dong, G Yu, P Ogunbona, W Li - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Thresholding is a commonly used technique for image segmentation. This paper presents
an efficient iterative algorithm for finding optimal thresholds that minimize a weighted sum-of …

A hybrid approach using Gaussian smoothing and genetic algorithm for multilevel thresholding

CC Lai, DC Tseng - International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent …, 2004 - content.iospress.com
In this paper, a hybrid approach, which is based on Gaussian smoothing and a genetic
algorithm (GA), is proposed for automatic multilevel image thresholding. Using a mixture …

Swarm selection method for multilevel thresholding image segmentation

M Abd Elaziz, S Bhattacharyya, S Lu - Expert systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Multilevel thresholding is one of the most popular approaches used for image segmentation.
Several methods have been used to find the threshold values; however, metaheuristic (MH) …

Meta-heuristic moth swarm algorithm for multilevel thresholding image segmentation

Y Zhou, X Yang, Y Ling, J Zhang - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2018 - Springer
Multilevel thresholding is a very important image processing technique in the field of image
segmentation. However, the computational complexity of determining the optimal threshold …

An adaptive Harris hawks optimization technique for two dimensional grey gradient based multilevel image thresholding

A Wunnava, MK Naik, R Panda, B Jena… - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
A metaheuristic algorithm called Harris hawks optimization (HHO) is gaining its popularity
among its clan and useful for optimization. In this algorithm, the prey gets completely …

A fast multilevel thresholding method based on lowpass and highpass filtering

CC Chang, LL Wang - Pattern Recognition Letters, 1997 - Elsevier
A new method of thresholding a gray-scale image into a desired number of classes is
proposed in this paper. The proposed method first evaluates the number of peaks in the …