Image segmentation based on differential immune clone clustering algorithm

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present a Differential Immune Clone Clustering Algorithm (DICCA) to solve image segmentation.

Design/methodology/approach

DICCA combines immune clone selection and differential evolution, and two populations are used in the evolutionary process. Clone reproduction and selection, differential mutation, crossover and selection are adopted to evolve two populations, which can increase population diversity and avoid local optimum. After extracting the texture features of an image and encoding them with real numbers, DICCA is used to partition these features, and the final segmentation result is obtained.

Findings

This approach is applied to segment all sorts of images into homogeneous regions, including artificial synthetic texture images, natural images and remote sensing images, and the experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Originality/value

The method presented in this paper represents a new approach to solving clustering problems. The novel method applies the idea two populations are used in the evolutionary process. The proposed clustering algorithm is shown to be effective in solving image segmentation.

Citation

Ma, W., Ti, F., Li, C. and Jiao, L. (2013), "Image segmentation based on differential immune clone clustering algorithm", International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, Vol. 6 No. 1, pp. 83-102. https://doi.org/10.1108/17563781311301535