Genetic Algorithms: A Tool for Image Segmentation

Abstract-Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are increasingly being explored in many areas of image analysis to solve complex optimization problems. They rapidly gained acceptance in the scientific community as powerful statistical search method whicj allows us to consider the segmentation problem as an optimiza tion problem. In this paper, we propose the use of GAs in an inte grated manner with traditional image segmentation techniques to provide an efficient segmentation and edges detection for selected natural images. The developed experimental results are compared with the results of other known existing segmentation algorithms such as K-mean clustering, and global threshold methods. The proposed method is capable of achieving a satisfactory results. Accordingly, the GAs based image segmentation method will definitely help in solving various complex image processing tasks. K�words-thresholding, image segmentation, genetic algorithms, edge detection, optimization I