A Competitive Swarm Algorithm for Image Segmentation Guided by Opposite Fuzzy Entropy

This paper proposes an alternative multilevel thresholding (MLT) image segmentation method by improving the behavior of the grasshopper optimization algorithm (GOA). This is achieved by using the operators of the sine-cosine algorithm (SCA) to work in a competitive manner with the operators of traditional GOA. This will lead to enhance the quality of the solutions during the updating process that will affect the convergence of the proposed GOASCA towards the global solution. In addition, the proposed GOASCA aims to minimize the difference between the fuzzy entropy and its opposite fuzzy entropy that is used as a fitness function to evaluate the quality of the solution. This objective function gives the GOASCA to explore the whole search space. To assess the quality of the obtained threshold values by GOASCA, a set of eight images are used which have different characteristics. Moreover, the results of GOASCA are compared with a set of well-known MLT image segmentation approaches, and these results have shown the high quality of GOASCA to segmented the image, as well as, shown that the current objective function provides results better than the traditional fuzzy entropy in terms of the performance measures of image segmentation.