Optimal multi-level thresholding with membrane computing

The conventional methods are not effective and efficient for image multi-level thresholding due to time-consuming and expensive computation cost. The multi-level thresholding problem can be posed as anoptimization problem, optimizing some thresholding criterion. In this paper, membrane computing isi...

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Autores: Peng, Hong, Wang, Jun, Pérez Jiménez, Mario de Jesús
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión enviada para evaluación y publicación
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/116326
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/116326
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsp.2014.10.006
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Membrane Computing
Cell-like P systems
Image segmentation
Multi-level thresholding
Histogram
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Sumario:The conventional methods are not effective and efficient for image multi-level thresholding due to time-consuming and expensive computation cost. The multi-level thresholding problem can be posed as anoptimization problem, optimizing some thresholding criterion. In this paper, membrane computing isintroduced to propose an efficient and robust multi-level thresholding method, where a cell-like P systemwith the nested structure of three layers is designed as its computing framework. Moreover, an improvedvelocity-position model is developed to evolve the objects in membranes based on the special membranestructure and communication mechanism of objects. Under the control of evolution-communicationmechanism of objects, the cell-like P system can efficiently exploit the best multi-level thresholds for animage. Simulation experiments on nine standard images compare the proposed multi-level thresholdingmethod with several state-of-the-art multi-level thresholding methods and demonstrate its superiority.