Optimal multi-thresholding using a hybrid optimization approach

E Zahara, SKS Fan, DM Tsai - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2005 - Elsevier
The Otsu's method has been proven as an efficient method in image segmentation for bi-
level thresholding. However, this method is computationally intensive when extended to …

Optimal multi-level thresholding using a two-stage Otsu optimization approach

DY Huang, CH Wang - Pattern Recognition Letters, 2009 - Elsevier
Otsu's method of image segmentation selects an optimum threshold by maximizing the
between-class variance in a gray image. However, this method becomes very time …

A multi-level thresholding approach using a hybrid optimal estimation algorithm

SKS Fan, Y Lin - Pattern recognition letters, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper presented a hybrid optimal estimation algorithm for solving multi-level
thresholding problems in image segmentation. The distribution of image intensity is modeled …

Multi-objective whale optimization algorithm for multilevel thresholding segmentation

MA El Aziz, AA Ewees, AE Hassanien… - Advances in soft …, 2018 - Springer
This chapter proposes a new method for determining the multilevel thresholding values for
image segmentation. The proposed method considers the multilevel threshold as multi …

A novel black widow optimization algorithm for multilevel thresholding image segmentation

EH Houssein, BE Helmy, D Oliva, AA Elngar… - Expert Systems with …, 2021 - Elsevier
Segmentation is a crucial step in image processing applications. This process separates
pixels of the image into multiple classes that permits the analysis of the objects contained in …

Two-dimensional extension of variance-based thresholding for image segmentation

F Nie, Y Wang, M Pan, G Peng, P Zhang - Multidimensional systems and …, 2013 - Springer
Variance-based thresholding method is a very effective technology for image segmentation.
However, its performance is limited in traditional one-dimensional and two-dimensional …

A hybrid firefly and particle swarm optimization algorithm applied to multilevel image thresholding

T Rahkar Farshi, A K. Ardabili - Multimedia Systems, 2021 - Springer
There are many techniques for conducting image analysis and pattern recognition. This
papers explores a way to optimize one of these techniques—image segmentation—with the …

Investigation of butterfly optimization and gases Brownian motion optimization algorithms for optimal multilevel image thresholding

K Sowjanya, SK Injeti - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Image processing is one of the major research regions in the most recent decades, in which,
image segmentation has gained more popularity due to its enormous applications. Before …

Multi-level image thresholding using Otsu and chaotic bat algorithm

SC Satapathy, N Sri Madhava Raja… - Neural Computing and …, 2018 - Springer
Multi-level thresholding is a helpful tool for several image segmentation applications.
Evaluating the optimal thresholds can be applied using a widely adopted extensive scheme …

A fast scheme for multilevel thresholding based on a modified bees algorithm

WA Hussein, S Sahran, SNHS Abdullah - Knowledge-Based Systems, 2016 - Elsevier
Image segmentation is one of the most important tasks in image processing and pattern
recognition. One of the most efficient and popular techniques for image segmentation is …