Object segmentation using ant colony optimization algorithm and fuzzy entropy

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 788-796

  Tao, Wenbing ^a,b   Jin, Hai ^a,b   Liu, Liman ^c  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^c O2Micro   (China)

Author keywords

Ant colony optimization; Fuzzy entropy; Global thresholding; Infrared object segmentation; Performance evaluation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; FUZZY SETS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION (ACO); FUZZY ENTROPY; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; INFRARED OBJECT SEGMENTATION; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 33847029148     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2006.11.007     Document Type: Article

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