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The Otsu thresholding algorithm represents a fundamental technique in image segmentation, yet its computational efficiency is severely limited by exhaustive search requirements across all possible threshold values. This work presents an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Sai Varun Kodathala

Though effective in the segmentation, conventional multilevel thresholding methods are computationally expensive as exhaustive search are used for optimal thresholds to optimize the objective functions. To overcome this problem,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Xiaotao Huang , Liang Shen , Chongyi Fan , Jiahua zhu , Sixian Chen

Image segmentation is an important component of many image understanding systems. It aims to group pixels in a spatially and perceptually coherent manner. Typically, these algorithms have a collection of parameters that control the degree…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-02 Marc Bosch , Christopher M. Gifford , Austin G. Dress , Clare W. Lau , Jeffrey G. Skibo , Gordon A. Christie

Recently, evolutionary multitasking (EMT) has been successfully used in the field of high-dimensional classification. However, the generation of multiple tasks in the existing EMT-based feature selection (FS) methods is relatively simple,…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Lingjie Li , Manlin Xuan , Qiuzhen Lin , Min Jiang , Zhong Ming , Kay Chen Tan

A novel algorithm is proposed for segmenting an image into multiple levels using its mean and variance. Starting from the extreme pixel values at both ends of the histogram plot, the algorithm is applied recursively on sub-ranges computed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Siddharth Arora , Jayadev Acharya , Amit Verma , Prasanta K. Panigrahi

This paper proposes a novel method for segmentation of images by hierarchical multilevel thresholding. The method is global, agglomerative in nature and disregards pixel locations. It involves the optimization of the ratio of the unbiased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2007-12-27 Sreechakra Goparaju , Jayadev Acharya , Ajoy K. Ray , Jaideva C. Goswami

Model compression plays a vital role in the practical deployment of deep neural networks (DNNs), and evolutionary multi-objective (EMO) pruning is an essential tool in balancing the compression rate and performance of the DNNs. However, due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-02 Ronghua Shang , Songling Zhu , Yinan Wu , Weitong Zhang , Licheng Jiao , Songhua Xu

This paper proposes an OTSU based differential evolution method for satellite image segmentation and compares it with four other methods such as Modified Artificial Bee Colony Optimizer (MABC), Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Genetic Algorithm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Afreen Shaikh , Sharmila Botcha , Murali Krishna

One of the most significant challenges in the field of deep learning and medical image segmentation is to determine an appropriate threshold for classifying each pixel. This threshold is a value above which the model's output is considered…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-28 Ali Fayzi , Mohammad Fayzi , Mostafa Forotan

We proposed an efficient iterative thresholding method for multi-phase image segmentation. The algorithm is based on minimizing piecewise constant Mumford-Shah functional in which the contour length (or perimeter) is approximated by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-11 Dong Wang , Haohan Li , Xiaoyu Wei , Xiaoping Wang

Realizing high-throughput aberration-corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM) exploration of atomic structures requires rapid tuning of multipole probe correctors while compensating for the inevitable drift of the optical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Utkarsh Pratiush , Austin Houston , Richard Liu , Gerd Duscher , Sergei Kalinin

Evolutionary algorithms have been successful in solving multi-objective optimization problems (MOPs). However, as a class of population-based search methodology, evolutionary algorithms require a large number of evaluations of the objective…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Xueming Yan , Yaochu Jin

In practical multi-criterion decision-making, it is cumbersome if a decision maker (DM) is asked to choose among a set of trade-off alternatives covering the whole Pareto-optimal front. This is a paradox in conventional evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Ke Li , Guiyu Lai , Xin Yao

Automated experiments in scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) require rapid image segmentation to optimize data representation for human interpretation, decision-making, site-selective spectroscopies, and atomic manipulation.…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-09-23 Kamyar Barakati , Utkarsh Pratiush , Austin C. Houston , Gerd Duscher , Sergei V. Kalinin

This paper attempts to undertake the study of segmentation image techniques by using five threshold methods as Mean method, P-tile method, Histogram Dependent Technique (HDT), Edge Maximization Technique (EMT) and visual Technique and they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2010-05-24 Salem Saleh Al-amri , N. V. Kalyankar , Khamitkar S. D.

With the increasing popularity and accessibility of high dynamic range (HDR) photography, tone mapping operators (TMOs) for dynamic range compression are practically demanding. In this paper, we develop a two-stage neural network-based TMO…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-28 Peibei Cao , Chenyang Le , Yuming Fang , Kede Ma

Stopping criteria automatically determine when to stop an evolutionary algorithm, so as not to waste function evaluations on a stagnant population. Although stopping criteria play an important role in real-world applications, they have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Kenji Kitamura , Ryoji Tanabe

Neural language models are probabilistic models of human text. They are predominantly trained using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), which is equivalent to minimizing the forward cross-entropy between the empirical data distribution and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Siyu Ren , Zhiyong Wu , Kenny Q. Zhu

Manual segmentation of medical images (e.g., segmenting tumors in CT scans) is a high-effort task that can be accelerated with machine learning techniques. However, selecting the right segmentation approach depends on the evaluation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Seyed M. R. Modaresi , Aomar Osmani , Mohammadreza Razzazi , Abdelghani Chibani

Moving Morphable Component (MMC) based topology optimization approach is an explicit algorithm since the boundary of the entity explicitly described by its functions. Compared with other pixel or node point-based algorithms, it is optimized…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-17 Xinchao Jiang , Hu Wang , Yu Li , Kangjia Mo