Image registration is one of the most important image processing tools enabling recognition,
classification, detection and other analysis tasks. Registration methods are used to solve a …

As the key to the construction progress monitoring, methods and strategies for change
detection using 3D point clouds from various sources have been investigated for years …

In linear registration, a floating image is spatially aligned with a reference image after
performing a series of linear metric transformations. Additionally, linear registration is mainly …

Multimodal medical image registration involves multiple pieces of medical equipment
collecting complementary information on the same content, resulting in information fusion …

Abstract The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem (CVRP) is a classical combinatorial
optimization problem, which objective is to minimize the vehicle travel distance. In this paper …

With the rapid growth of the number of web services on the Internet, various service
providers provide many similar services with the same function but different quality of service …

Optimal power flow (OPF) is a complex, highly nonlinear, NP-hard optimization problem, in
which the goal is to determine the optimal operational parameters of a power-related system …

Many real-world problems can be abstracted as multimodal global optimization, which is
one of the main challenges for optimization algorithms due to its complexity. The fireworks …

Scatter search (SS) is a population-based metaheuristic algorithm, which has been proved
high efficiency and effective optimizer for complex continuous real value problems. A two …

This study presents an optimization algorithm, called united equilibrium optimizer (UEO),
which is modified from the equilibrium optimizer (EO). We improved the search structure of …