1. Multi-objective evolutionary fuzzy clustering for image segmentation with MOEA/D.
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Zhang, Mengxuan, Jiao, Licheng, Ma, Wenping, Ma, Jingjing, and Gong, Maoguo
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EVOLUTIONARY computation ,FUZZY clustering technique ,IMAGE segmentation ,MATHEMATICAL decomposition ,ALGORITHMS ,INFORMATION theory - Abstract
In order to achieve robust performance of preserving significant image details while removing noise for image segmentation, this paper presents a multi-objective evolutionary fuzzy clustering (MOEFC) algorithm to convert fuzzy clustering problems for image segmentation into multi-objective problems. The multi-objective problems are optimized by multi-objective evolutionary algorithm with decomposition. The decomposition strategy is adopted to project the multi-objective problem into a number of sub-problems. Each sub-problem represents a fuzzy clustering problem incorporating local information for image segmentation. Opposition-based learning is utilized to improve search capability of the proposed algorithm. Two problem-specific techniques, an adaptive weighted fuzzy factor and a mixed population initialization, are introduced to improve the performance of the algorithm. Experiment results on synthetic and real images illustrate that the proposed algorithm can achieve a trade-off between preserving image details and removing noise for image segmentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2016
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