Improved bat algorithm applied to multilevel image thresholding

Scientific World Journal

Volumn 2014, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Alihodzic, Adis ^a   Tuba, Milan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO   (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAT ALGORITHM; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOLOCATION; ENTROPY; EVOLUTION; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING ALGORITHM; POPULATION SIZE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOUND; STANDARD; STATE OF THE ART ALGORITHM; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION STUDY; PROCEDURES; SEARCH ENGINE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

APOIDEA;

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SEARCH ENGINE;

EID: 84902512611     PISSN: 23566140     EISSN: 1537744X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2014/176718     Document Type: Article

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