A Literature Survey of Optimization Techniques for Satellite Image Segmentation

The satellite image segmentation is a key area for current research and numerous work has been done for exploration of this area. The nature inspired optimization algorithms are very promising with image segmentation techniques to provide a platform for processing of satellite images. In this paper a literature review of different nature based optimization algorithms such as modified artificial bee colony (MABC) algorithm, ABC algorithm, particle swarm optimization (PSO), Darwinian PSO, genetic algorithm (GA), Wind driven optimization (WDO) and cuckoo search(CS) using different objective functions has been discussed to find the optimized multilevel thresholds. These nature influenced optimization methods and their performances are compared using different objective functions for optimal multilevel thresholding. The comparative study shows that the MABC algorithm and different variants of CS algorithm are very strong and accurate in results generating using image segmentation. Both methods search multilevel thresholds very efficiently and correctly, and in MABC an improved bee’s search solution are used and in CS the cuckoo search solution are used.