A new particle swarm intelligence-based graph partitioning technique for image segmentation

Abstract

Abstract The advances in the image processing area demand for improvement in image segmentation methods. Effect of light and noise being ignored in image segmentation while tracing the objects of interest in addition to this texture is also one of the most important factors for analyzing an image automatically. Among the diverse segmentation methods, graph-based techniques are widespread because of their capabilities of generating accurate segmentation structures. In this paper, we have proposed a novel technique by using discrete particle swarm optimization and multilevel partitioning for segmentation of an image. The developed technique has lesser complexity, better efficiency and gives improved results than other methods.

Keywords

• Image segmentation
• Swarm intelligence
• Particle swarm optimization
• Multilevel graph partitioning