Spatial Information Based Image Segmentation Using a Modified Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm

  • Authors:
  • Swagatam Das;Ajith Abraham;Amit Konar

  • Affiliations:
  • Jadavpur University, India;Chung Ang University (CAU), Korea;Jadavpur University, India

  • Venue:
  • ISDA '06 Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications - Volume 02
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This article proposes a particle swarm based segmentation algorithm for automatically grouping the pixels of an image into different homogeneous regions. In contrast to most of the existing evolutionary image segmentation techniques, we have incorporated spatial information into the membership function for clustering. The spatial function is the summation of the membership function in the neighborhood of each pixel under consideration. The two very important advantages of the new method are: 1) It does not require a priori knowledge of the number of partitions in the image and 2) It yields regions, more homogeneous than the existing methods even in presence of noise.