Bi level kapurs entropy based image segmentation using particle swarm optimization

Abstract

In the field of Image Processing, Image segmentation is a low level but important task in entire image understanding system which divides an image into its multiple disjoint regions based on homogeneity. In most of the machine vesion and high level image understanding application this is one of the important steps. Till date different techniques of image segmentation are available and hence There exists a huge survey literature in different approaches of Image Segmentation. Selection of image segmentation technique is highly problem specific. There is no versatile algorithm which is applicable for all kinds of images. Optimization based image segmentation is not explored much which can be applied to reduce complexity of the problem. The aim of the paper is to search for an optimized threshold value for Image Segmentation using Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm where fitness function is designed based on entropy of the image.