Image edge detection using variation-adaptive ant colony optimization

  • Authors:

  • Jing Tian;Weiyu Yu;Li Chen;Lihong Ma

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, P.R. China;School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China;School of Computer Science and Technology, Wuhan University of Science and Technology, P.R. China;Guangdong Key Lab of Wireless Network and Terminal, School of Electronic and Information Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • Transactions on computational collective intelligence V
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Ant colony optimization (ACO) is an optimization algorithm inspired by the natural collective behavior of ant species. The ACO technique is exploited in this paper to develop a novel image edge detection approach. The proposed approach is able to establish a pheromone matrix that represents the edge presented at each pixel position of the image, according to the movements of a number of ants which are dispatched to move on the image. Furthermore, the movements of ants are driven by the local variation of the image's intensity values. Extensive experimental results are provided to demonstrate the superior performance of the proposed approach.