| Paper title: |
Automatic Multi-Level Thresholding Segmentation Based on Multi-Objective Optimization |
| Published in: | Issue 2, (Vol. 6) / 2012 |
| Publishing date: | 2011-10-24 |
| Pages: | 24-31 |
| Author(s): | DJEROU L., KHELIL N., DEHIMI N. H., BATOUCHE M., BATOUCHE M. |
| Abstract. | In this paper, we present a new multi-level image thresholding technique, called Automatic Threshold based on Multi-objective Optimization "ATMO" that combines the flexibility of multi-objective fitness functions with the power of a Binary Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm "BPSO", for searching the "optimum" number of the thresholds and simultaneously the optimal thresholds of three criteria: the between-class variances criterion, the minimum error criterion and the entropy criterion. Some examples of test images are presented to compare our segmentation method, based on the multi-objective optimization approach with Otsu’s, Kapur’s and Kittler’s methods. Our experimental results show that the thresholding method based on multi-objective optimization is more efficient than the classical Otsu’s, Kapur’s and Kittler’s methods. |
| Keywords: | Binary Particle Swarm Optimization, Image Segmentation, Image Thresholding, Multi-objective Optimization, Non-pare To Approach. |
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