An image segmentation approach based on chaotic ant colony algorithms

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6833, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Pan, Zhongliang ^a   Chen, Ling ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Ant colony algorithm; Chaotic approach; Image segmentation; Threshold segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHAOTIC SYSTEMS; COMPUTATION THEORY;

CHAOTIC ANT COLONY ALGORITHM; OPTIMAL THRESHOLD VALUES;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

EID: 41149148158     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.756538     Document Type: Conference Paper

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