Image segmentation remains one of the major challenges in image analysis and computer vision. Fuzzy clustering, as a
soft segmentation method, has been widely studied and successfully applied in mage clustering and segmentation. The
fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm is the most popular method used in mage segmentation. However, most clustering
algorithms such as the k-means and the FCM clustering algorithms search for the final clusters values based on the
predetermined initial centers. The FCM clustering algorithms does not consider the space information of pixels and is
sensitive to noise. In the paper, presents a new fuzzy c-means (FCM) algorithm with adaptive evolutionary programming
that provides image clustering. The features of this algorithm are: 1) firstly, it need not predetermined initial centers.
Evolutionary programming will help FCM search for better center and escape bad centers at local minima. Secondly, the
spatial distance and the Euclidean distance is also considered in the FCM clustering. So this algorithm is more robust to
the noises. Thirdly, the adaptive evolutionary programming is proposed. The mutation rule is adaptively changed with
learning the useful knowledge in the evolving process. Experiment results shows that the new image segmentation
algorithm is effective. It is providing robustness to noisy images.
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