Multilevel Color Image Segmentation Based on GLCM and Improved Salp Swarm Algorithm

• Published in: IEEE access Vol. 7; pp. 37672 - 37690
• Main Authors: Xing, Zhikai, Jia, Heming
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Piscataway IEEE 2019; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Algorithms; Clustering algorithms; Color; Color image segmentation; Color imagery; Entropy; GLCM; Image quality; Image segmentation; Levy flight; Mathematical model; Optimization; salp swarm algorithm; Satellite imagery; Search problems; Signal to noise ratio
• ISSN: 2169-3536; 2169-3536
• DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2904511

The grayscale co-occurrence matrix (GLCM) can be adapted to segment the image according to the pixels, but the segmentation effect becomes worse as the number of threshold increases. To solve this problem, we propose an improved salp swarm algorithm (LSSA) to optimize GLCM, with the novel diagonal class entropy (DCE) as the fitness function of the GLCM algorithm. At the same time, in order to increase the optimization ability of traditional SSA algorithm, Levy flight (LF) strategy should be improved. Through experiments on the LSSA algorithm of the color natural images, the satellite images, and the Berkeley images, the segmentation quality of the segmented images is evaluated by peak signal-to-noise ratio, feature similarity, probability rand index, variation of information, global consistency error, and boundary displacement error. The experimental results show that the segmentation ability of the GLCM-LSSA algorithm is superior to other comparison algorithms and has a good segmentation ability.