Hyper-heuristic method for multilevel thresholding image segmentation

M Abd Elaziz, AA Ewees, D Oliva - Expert Systems with Applications, 2020 - Elsevier
In digital image processing, one of the most relevant tasks is to classify pixels depending on
their intensity level. To perform this process there exist different traditional methods as Otsu …

A new heuristic for multilevel thresholding of images

VK Bohat, KV Arya - Expert Systems with Applications, 2019 - Elsevier
Multilevel thresholding of images helps in separating the interesting objects from their
background. The quality of separation depends much on the selected threshold values. This …

[HTML][HTML] Shannon and fuzzy entropy based evolutionary image thresholding for image segmentation

MSR Naidu, PR Kumar, K Chiranjeevi - Alexandria engineering journal, 2018 - Elsevier
Image segmentation is a very important and pre-processing step in image analysis. The
conventional multilevel thresholding methods are efficient for bi-level thresholding because …

A multilevel image thresholding using the honey bee mating optimization

MH Horng - Applied Mathematics and Computation, 2010 - Elsevier
Image thresholding is an important technique for image processing and pattern recognition.
Many thresholding techniques have been proposed in the literature. Among them, the …

Human mental search-based multilevel thresholding for image segmentation

SJ Mousavirad, H Ebrahimpour-Komleh - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
Multilevel thresholding is one of the principal methods of image segmentation. These
methods enjoy image histogram for segmentation. The quality of segmentation depends on …

Improved bat algorithm applied to multilevel image thresholding

A Alihodzic, M Tuba - The Scientific World Journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Multilevel image thresholding is a very important image processing technique that is used as
a basis for image segmentation and further higher level processing. However, the required …

An efficient multilevel image thresholding method based on improved heap-based optimizer

EH Houssein, GM Mohamed, IA Ibrahim… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Image segmentation is the process of separating pixels of an image into multiple classes,
enabling the analysis of objects in the image. Multilevel thresholding (MTH) is a method …

A novel color image multilevel thresholding based segmentation using nature inspired optimization algorithms

AK Bhandari, A Kumar, S Chaudhary… - Expert Systems with …, 2016 - Elsevier
Multilevel thresholding for segmentation is an essential task and indispensable process in
various applications. Conventional color multilevel thresholding based image …

A competitive chain-based Harris Hawks Optimizer for global optimization and multi-level image thresholding problems

M Abd Elaziz, AA Heidari, H Fujita, H Moayedi - Applied Soft Computing, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents an enhanced Harris Hawks Optimizer (HHO) to tackle global
optimization and determine the optimal threshold values for multi-level image segmentation …

A whale optimization algorithm with combined mutation and removing similarity for global optimization and multilevel thresholding image segmentation

J Wang, J Bei, H Song, H Zhang, P Zhang - Applied Soft Computing, 2023 - Elsevier
Because of the problem of the whale optimization algorithm (WOA), such as weak local
search ability, easy fall into local optimality, unable to better balance the exploration and …