Ant Algorithms for Adaptive Edge Detection

Edge detection is a pre-processing step in applications of computer and robot vision. It transforms the input image to a binary image that indicates either the presence or the absence of an edge. Therefore, the edge detectors represent a special group of search algorithms with the objective of finding the pixels belonging to true edges. The search is performed following certain criteria, as the edge pixels are found in regions of an image where the distinct intensity changes or discontinuities occur (e.g. in color, gray-intensity level, texture, etc.).

[1]  Sos S. Agaian,et al.  Coordinate Logic Transforms and their Use in the Detection of Edges within Binary and Grayscale Images , 2007, 2007 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.

[2]  J. Miguel Barrón-Adame,et al.  Image Segmentation Using Ant System-Based Clustering Algorithm , 2011, SOCO.

[3]  Joel Quintanilla-Domínguez,et al.  Edge detection using ant colony search algorithm and multiscale contrast enhancement , 2009, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics.

[4]  Frank Y. Shih,et al.  Adaptive mathematical morphology for edge linking , 2004, Inf. Sci..

[5]  Dmitry B. Goldgof,et al.  Comparison of Edge Detector Performance through Use in an Object Recognition Task , 2001, Comput. Vis. Image Underst..

[6]  Sos S. Agaian,et al.  Logarithmic Edge Detection with Applications , 2008, J. Comput..

[7]  Marco Dorigo,et al.  Ant system: optimization by a colony of cooperating agents , 1996, IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern. Part B.

[8]  Jian Fan,et al.  Mammographic feature enhancement by multiscale analysis , 1994, IEEE Trans. Medical Imaging.

[9]  James Kennedy,et al.  Particle swarm optimization , 2002, Proceedings of ICNN'95 - International Conference on Neural Networks.

[10]  John F. Canny,et al.  A Computational Approach to Edge Detection , 1986, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.

[11]  Liu Wei,et al.  A New Contour Detection in Mammogram Using Sequential Edge Linking , 2008, 2008 Second International Symposium on Intelligent Information Technology Application.

[12]  Anna Veronica Baterina,et al.  Image edge detection using ant colony optimization , 2010 .

[13]  Babak Nadjar Araabi,et al.  Hierarchical Image Segmentation Using Ant Colony and Chemical Computing Approach , 2005, ICNC.

[14]  Diego Andina,et al.  Adaptive artificial ant colonies for edge detection in digital images , 2010, IECON 2010 - 36th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society.

[15]  Chien-Chang Chen,et al.  Edge detection improvement by ant colony optimization , 2008, Pattern Recognit. Lett..

[16]  D. Pham,et al.  THE BEES ALGORITHM, A NOVEL TOOL FOR COMPLEX OPTIMISATION PROBLEMS , 2006 .

[17]  Jiliu Zhou,et al.  An Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm for Image Edge Detection , 2010, 2010 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Computational Intelligence.

[18]  Riccardo Poli,et al.  Particle Swarm Optimisation , 2011 .

[19]  Marco Dorigo,et al.  Ant colony optimization , 2006, IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.

[20]  Peng Huang,et al.  An artificial ant colonies approach to medical image segmentation , 2008, Comput. Methods Programs Biomed..

[21]  Tony White,et al.  An ant-inspired algorithm for detection of image edge features , 2011, Appl. Soft Comput..

[22]  Basil G. Mertzios,et al.  Applications of coordinate logic filters in image analysis and pattern recognition , 2001, ISPA 2001. Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis. In conjunction with 23rd International Conference on Information Technology Interfaces (IEEE Cat..

[23]  Javad Rahebi,et al.  Biomedical Image Edge Detection using an Ant Colony Optimization Based on Artificial Neural Networks , 2011 .

[24]  Marco Dorigo,et al.  Swarm intelligence: from natural to artificial systems , 1999 .

[25]  A. Jevtić,et al.  Ant based edge linking algorithm , 2009, 2009 35th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics.

[26]  Andries Petrus Engelbrecht,et al.  Fundamentals of Computational Swarm Intelligence , 2005 .

[27]  Hossein Nezamabadi-pour,et al.  Edge detection using ant algorithms , 2006, Soft Comput..

[28]  Qiang Wu,et al.  Bilateral Edge Detection on a Virtual Hexagonal Structure , 2006, ISVC.

[29]  Joe-Air Jiang,et al.  Mathematical-morphology-based edge detectors for detection of thin edges in low-contrast regions , 2007 .

[30]  Vitorino Ramos,et al.  Artificial Ant Colonies in Digital Image Habitats - A Mass Behaviour Effect Study on Pattern Recognition , 2004, ArXiv.

[31]  Pedro Pina,et al.  Self-Organized Data and Image Retrieval as a Consequence of Inter-Dynamic Synergistic Relationships in Artificial Ant Colonies , 2002, HIS.