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Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing IV – João Tavares & Natal Jorge (eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00081-0
A study of a firefly meta-heuristics for multithreshold
image segmentation
H. Erdmann, L.A. Lopes, G.A. Wachs-Lopes, M.P. Ribeiro & P.S. Rodrigues
Signal Processing Group, Centro Universitário da FEI, São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, Brazil
Computer Science Department, Aeronautical Institute of Technology, São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brasil
ABSTRACT: Thresholding-based image segmentation algorithms are usually developed for a specific
set of images because the objective of these algorithms is strongly related to their applications. The bina-
rization of the image is generally preferred ov