Cuckoo search and firefly algorithm applied to multilevel image thresholding

Studies in Computational Intelligence

Volumn 516, Issue , 2014, Pages 115-139

  Brajevic, Ivona ^a   Tuba, Milan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Cuckoo search; Firefly algorithm; Image processing; Multilevel image thresholding; Nature inspired algorithms; Optimization metaheuristics; Swarm intelligence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958552034     PISSN: 1860949X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02141-6_6     Document Type: Article

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