A Type-2 Fuzzy Clustering and Quantum Optimization Approach for Crops Image Segmentation

Automatic detection of crop yield ripeness is a tedious task because of the presence of various intensities of color in crops. One of the solutions to this problem is the monitoring of those crops by performing segmentation operations. This operation can help to distinguish the ripe and non-ripe regions among the crop images. For this purpose, this study presents a new hybrid crop image segmentation method utilizing type-2 fuzzy set (T2FS), K -means clustering algorithm, and modified quantum optimization algorithm (MQOA). The proposed method fully utilizes the indispensable qualities of these three techniques by (a) using T2FS to represent each color component of crop images in terms of secondary memberships, (b) applying K -means clustering algorithm to extract the similar features from the set of type-2 entropy values obtained from the secondary memberships, and (c) exploiting MQOA to optimize the distance function used in K -means clustering algorithm to obtain the optimal clusters. The performance of the proposed method is assessed based on the experiments carried out on color images of cherry tomatoes. Evidence of experimental results suggests that the proposed method produces extremely effective segmented images relative to those well-known color image segmentation methods available in the literature of pattern recognition and computer vision domains.

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