Segmentation of color images using genetic algorithm with image histogram

Abstract

This paper proposes a family of color image segmentation algorithms using genetic approach and color similarity threshold in terns of Just noticeable difference. Instead of segmenting and then optimizing, the proposed technique directly uses GA for optimized segmentation of color images. Application of GA on larger size color images is computationally heavy so they are applied on 4D-color image histogram table. The performance of the proposed algorithms is benchmarked on BSD dataset with color histogram based segmentation and Fuzzy C-means Algorithm using Probabilistic Rand Index (PRI). The proposed algorithms yield better analytical and visual results.