A Global Multilevel Thresholding Using Differential Evolution Approach
Joint Authors
Chiewchanwattana, Sirapat
Sunat, Khamron
Charansiriphaisan, Kanjana
Source
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Issue
Vol. 2014, Issue 2014 (31 Dec. 2014), pp.1-23, 23 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2014-03-20
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
23
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
Otsu’s function measures the properness of threshold values in multilevel image thresholding.
Optimal threshold values are necessary for some applications and a global search algorithm is required.
Differential evolution (DE) is an algorithm that has been used successfully for solving this problem.
Because the difficulty of a problem grows exponentially when the number of thresholds increases, the ordinary DE fails when the number of thresholds is greater than 12.
An improved DE, using a new mutation strategy, is proposed to overcome this problem.
Experiments were conducted on 20 real images and the number of thresholds varied from 2 to 16.
Existing global optimization algorithms were compared with the proposed algorithms, that is, DE, rank-DE, artificial bee colony (ABC), particle swarm optimization (PSO), DPSO, and FODPSO.
The experimental results show that the proposed algorithm not only achieves a more successful rate but also yields a lower threshold value distortion than its competitors in the search for optimal threshold values, especially when the number of thresholds is large.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Charansiriphaisan, Kanjana& Chiewchanwattana, Sirapat& Sunat, Khamron. 2014. A Global Multilevel Thresholding Using Differential Evolution Approach. Mathematical Problems in Engineering،Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-23.
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Modern Language Association (MLA)
Charansiriphaisan, Kanjana…[et al.]. A Global Multilevel Thresholding Using Differential Evolution Approach. Mathematical Problems in Engineering No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-23.
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American Medical Association (AMA)
Charansiriphaisan, Kanjana& Chiewchanwattana, Sirapat& Sunat, Khamron. A Global Multilevel Thresholding Using Differential Evolution Approach. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2014. Vol. 2014, no. 2014, pp.1-23.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-512725
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-512725