In the field of image processing, there are several problems where an efficient search of the
solutions has to be performed within a complex search domain to find an optimal solution …

The epidemic increase in online reviews' growth made the sentiment classification a
fascinating domain in academic and industrial research. The reviews assist several …

Over the past few years, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) or drones have been used for
many applications. In certain applications like surveillance and emergency rescue …

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 …

Algorithms inspired by the intelligent social behavior of simple agents have become popular
among the researchers in the recent years. These algorithms are able to find the solution of …

In recent times, researchers have increasingly turned their attention to nature-inspired
algorithms that draw insights from the cognitive behaviors of animals, insects, and birds …

Abstract Spider Monkey Optimization is the newest member of the Swarm Intelligence-based
algorithm, which is motivated by the extraordinary behavior of Spider Monkeys. The SMO …

Thresholding is one of the simplest and popular technique for segmenting images.
Maximum between-class variance (Otsu's) method is one of the well-known and widely used …

One of the critical tasks in image processing is image segmentation. Image thresholding is
the simplest technique of segmentation in two forms of bi‐level and multilevel. One …

In image clustering, it is desired that pixels assigned in the same class must be the same or
similar. In other words, the homogeneity of a cluster must be high. In gray scale image …