Discrete particle swarm optimization based on estimation of distribution for polygonal approximation problems

  • Authors:
  • Jiahai Wang;Zhanghui Kuang;Xinshun Xu;Yalan Zhou

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, No. 135, Xingang West Road, Guangzhou 510275, China;Department of Computer Science, Sun Yat-sen University, No. 135, Xingang West Road, Guangzhou 510275, China;School of Computer Science and Technology, Shandong University Middle of Shunhua Road, Jinan, Shandong 250101, China;Information Science School, Guangdong University of Business Studies, No. 21, Chisha Road, Guangzhou 510320, China

  • Venue:
  • Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The polygonal approximation is an important topic in the area of pattern recognition, computer graphics and computer vision. This paper presents a novel discrete particle swarm optimization algorithm based on estimation of distribution (DPSO-EDA), for two types of polygonal approximation problems. Estimation of distribution algorithms sample new solutions from a probability model which characterizes the distribution of promising solutions in the search space at each generation. The DPSO-EDA incorporates the global statistical information collected from local best solution of all particles into the particle swarm optimization and therefore each particle has comprehensive learning and search ability. Further, constraint handling methods based on the split-and-merge local search is introduced to satisfy the constraints of the two types of problems. Simulation results on several benchmark problems show that the DPSO-EDA is better than previous methods such as genetic algorithm, tabu search, particle swarm optimization, and ant colony optimization.