Image Texture Segmentation with Ant Colony Systems

A new scheme for texture segmentation based on ant colony systems (ACS) is proposed in this paper. Texture segmentation is one of the important branches in image pattern recognition, which provides usefulness in many applications. Until now, how to find an effective way for accomplishing texture segmentation in practical applications is still a major task. In this paper, we employ wavelet coefficients and characteristics of different subbands to serve as the basis of characteristic vectors, and we use three feature-extraction elements, namely, the extrema, entropy, and energy, to compose the characteristic vector. To alleviate segmentation fragments caused from the information in high frequency bands of texture images, we integrate the fourth element, the mean variance, into the characteristic vector. Finally, we use ACS to find a trade-off between texture segmentation and fragments. Simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness and practicability of the proposed algorithm

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