• DocumentCode
    3334014
  • Title

    Emergent Behavior of Ant Colony System in Digital Images for Acquiring Edge Information

  • Author

    Zhu, Hui ; Zhuang, Xiaodong ; Meng, Xiangzhong

  • Author_Institution
    Qingdao Univ. of Sci. and Technol., Qingdao
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    13-15 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    116
  • Lastpage
    121
  • Abstract
    A novel method of acquiring edge information in digital images is presented based on the emergent pattern of the behavior of artificial ant swarm in digital images. The perceptual graph is proposed to represent the relationship between adjacent image points. The ant colony system is applied to build the perceptual graph, based on which the edge information is obtained. The experimental results show that the artificial ant swarm can effectively perform edge information acquirement in digital image.
  • Keywords
    computer vision; edge detection; feature extraction; graph theory; optimisation; ant colony system; artificial ant swarm; digital images; edge extraction; edge information acquirement; emergent behavior; machine vision system; perceptual graph; Ant colony optimization; Automation; Digital images; Educational institutions; Feature extraction; Image edge detection; Intelligent robots; Intelligent systems; Machine vision; Particle swarm optimization;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Information Reuse and Integration, 2007. IRI 2007. IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Las Vegas, IL
  • Print_ISBN
    1-4244-1500-4
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1-4244-1500-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IRI.2007.4296607
  • Filename
    4296607