A competitive chain-based Harris Hawks Optimizer for global optimization and multi-level image thresholding problems

11/20/2020
by   Ali Asghar Heidari, et al.
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This paper presents an enhanced Harris Hawks Optimizer (HHO) to tackle global optimization and determine the optimal threshold values for multi-level image segmentation problems. HHO is a new swarm-based metaheuristic technique that simulates the behaviors of Harris hawks during the process of catching the rabbits. The HHO established its strong performance as a swarm-based optimization technique. However, population-based HHO still may face some limitations in dealing with more multi-modal and composition problems. For example, this optimizer may be stagnated to local optima and turned to immature convergence when performing phases of exploration and exploitation. To mitigate these drawbacks, an improved HHO is proposed that considers the salp swarm algorithm (SSA) as a competitive method to enhance the balance between its exploration and exploitation trends. Firstly, a set of solutions is generated. Then, we divide those solutions into two halves, where the exploratory and exploitative phases of HHO will be applied to the first half, and the searching stages of SSA will be used to update the solutions in the second half. Thereafter, the best solutions from the union sub-populations are selected to continue the iterative process. According to the improved HHO, which is called HHOSSA, an effective multi-level image segmentation approach is also developed in this research. A comprehensive set of experiments are performed using 36 IEEE CEC 2005 benchmark functions and 11 natural gray-scale images. Extensive results and comparisons show the high ability of the SSA to improve the HHO’s performance since the proposed HHOSSA achieves a more stable performance compared to HHO, SSA, and many other well-known methods. Visit: https://aliasgharheidari.com/publications/HHOSSA.html

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