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Multilevel Thresholding Color Image Segmentation Using a Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm

Sipeng ZHANG, Wei JIANG, Shin'ichi SATOH

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In this paper, a multilevel thresholding color image segmentation method is proposed using a modified Artificial Bee Colony(ABC) algorithm. In this work, in order to improve the local search ability of ABC algorithm, Krill Herd algorithm is incorporated into its onlooker bees phase. The proposed algorithm is named as Krill herd-inspired modified Artificial Bee Colony algorithm (KABC algorithm). Experiment results verify the robustness of KABC algorithm, as well as its improvement in optimizing accuracy and convergence speed. In this work, KABC algorithm is used to solve the problem of multilevel thresholding for color image segmentation. To deal with luminance variation, rather than using gray scale histogram, a HSV space-based pre-processing method is proposed to obtain 1D feature vector. KABC algorithm is then applied to find thresholds of the feature vector. At last, an additional local search around the quasi-optimal solutions is employed to improve segmentation accuracy. In this stage, we use a modified objective function which combines Structural Similarity Index Matrix (SSIM) with Kapur's entropy. The pre-processing method, the global optimization with KABC algorithm and the local optimization stage form the whole color image segmentation method. Experiment results show enhance in accuracy of segmentation with the proposed method.

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E101-D No.8 pp.2064-2071
Publication Date
2018/08/01
Publicized
2018/05/09
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1587/transinf.2017EDP7183
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining

Authors

Sipeng ZHANG
  Zhejiang University
Wei JIANG
  Zhejiang University
Shin'ichi SATOH
  National Institute of Informatics

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