An improved whale optimization algorithm based on multilevel threshold image segmentation using the Otsu method

G Ma, X Yue - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, an improved multithreshold image segmentation method based on the whale
optimization algorithm (RAV-WOA) is proposed, with the between-class variance (Otsu …

[HTML][HTML] A new fusion of whale optimizer algorithm with Kapur's entropy for multi-threshold image segmentation: Analysis and validations

M Abdel-Basset, R Mohamed… - Artificial Intelligence …, 2022 - Springer
The separation of an object from other objects or the background by selecting the optimal
threshold values remains a challenge in the field of image segmentation. Threshold …

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 …

Kapur's entropy for underwater multilevel thresholding image segmentation based on whale optimization algorithm

Z Yan, J Zhang, Z Yang, J Tang - IEEE access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multilevel thresholding is an effective and indispensable technology for image segmentation
that has attracted extensive attention in recent years. However, the multilevel thresholding …

A multi-leader whale optimization algorithm for global optimization and image segmentation

M Abd Elaziz, S Lu, S He - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
In this paper, a multilevel thresholding image segmentation method base on the
enhancement of the performance of the whale optimization algorithm (WOA). The developed …

Whale optimization algorithm and moth-flame optimization for multilevel thresholding image segmentation

M Abd El Aziz, AA Ewees, AE Hassanien - Expert Systems with Applications, 2017 - Elsevier
Determining the optimal thresholding for image segmentation has got more attention in
recent years since it has many applications. There are several methods used to find the …

An efficient multilevel color image thresholding based on modified whale optimization algorithm

J Anitha, SIA Pandian, SA Agnes - Expert Systems with Applications, 2021 - Elsevier
Color image segmentation is a vital preprocessing stage in various image processing
applications. In threshold-based segmentation, the success of the image segmentation …

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 …

HWOA: A hybrid whale optimization algorithm with a novel local minima avoidance method for multi-level thresholding color image segmentation

M Abdel-Basset, R Mohamed, NM AbdelAziz… - Expert Systems with …, 2022 - Elsevier
Traditional methods to address color image segmentation work efficiently for bi-level
thresholding. However, for multi-level thresholding, traditional methods suffer from time …

[HTML][HTML] OTSU multi-threshold image segmentation based on improved particle swarm algorithm

J Zheng, Y Gao, H Zhang, Y Lei, J Zhang - Applied Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
In view of the slow convergence speed of traditional particle swarm optimization algorithms,
which makes it easy to fall into local optimum, this paper proposes an OTSU multi-threshold …