An ant colony optimization algorithm for image edge detection

2008 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 751-756

  Tian, Jing ^a   Yu, Weiyu ^a   Xie, Shengli ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; OPTIMIZATION;

ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; ANT COLONY OPTIMIZATIONS; ANT SPECIES; DEPOSIT PHEROMONES; DETECTION APPROACHES; EDGE INFORMATIONS; IMAGE EDGE DETECTIONS; INTENSITY VALUES; LOCAL VARIATIONS; OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; PIXEL POSITIONS; SUPERIOR PERFORMANCES;

EDGE DETECTION;

EID: 55749113866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CEC.2008.4630880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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