An image segmentation approach based on maximum variance Intra-cluster method and Firefly algorithm

Proceedings - 2011 7th International Conference on Natural Computation, ICNC 2011

Volumn 3, Issue , 2011, Pages 1817-1821

  Hassanzadeh, Tahereh ^a   Vojodi, Hakimeh ^a   Moghadam, Amir Masoud Eftekhari ^a  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Firefly algorithm (FA); Image segmentation; Otsu's method

Indexed keywords

CONVERGING SPEED; EVALUATION OF SEGMENTATION; FIREFLY ALGORITHM (FA); GRAY LEVEL IMAGE; HOMOGENOUS REGION; INTRA-CLUSTER; LOW LEVEL; MAXIMUM VARIANCE; MULTIPLE THRESHOLD; NUMBER OF ITERATIONS; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; OPTIMUM THRESHOLD; OTSU'S METHOD; PEAK SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; RUNTIMES; SEGMENTATION ACCURACY;

BIOLUMINESCENCE; CLUSTER COMPUTING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTIMIZATION; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 80053416183     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICNC.2011.6022379     Document Type: Conference Paper

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