This document discusses image segmentation techniques using clustering algorithms. It introduces Fuzzy C-Means (FCM) clustering, which allows data points to belong to multiple clusters with varying degrees of membership. However, FCM does not work well on noisy or non-linearly separable data. The document proposes the Kernel Fuzzy C-Means (KFCM) algorithm, which uses a kernel function to map data to a higher dimensional space, making separation easier. While improving results for noisy images, KFCM does not consider neighboring pixels. Finally, the document introduces the Novel Modified Kernel Fuzzy C-Means (NMKFCM) algorithm, which incorporates neighborhood information into the objective function to further improve segmentation accuracy, especially for noisy images
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
ROI Based Image Compression in Baseline JPEGIJERA Editor
To improve the efficiency of standard JPEG compression algorithm an adaptive quantization technique based on the support for region of interest of compression is introduced. Since this is a lossy compression technique the less important bits are discarded and are not restored back during decompression. Adaptive quantization is carried out by applying two different quantization to the picture provided by the user. The user can select any part of the image and enter the required quality for compression. If according to the user the subject is more important than the background then more quality is provided to the subject than the background and vice- versa. Adaptive quantization in baseline sequential JPEG is carried out by applying Forward Discrete Cosine Transform (FDCT), two different quantization provided by the user for compression, thereby achieving region of interest compression and Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT) for decompression. This technique makes sure that the memory is used efficiently. Moreover we have specifically designed this for identifying defects in the leather samples clearly.
Survey on clustering based color image segmentation and novel approaches to f...eSAT Journals
Abstract Segmentation is an important image processing technique that helps to analyze an image automatically. Applications involving detection or recognition of objects in images often include segmentation process. This paper describes two unsupervised clustering based color image segmentation techniques namely K-means clustering and Fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering. The advantages and disadvantages of both K-means and Fuzzy C-means algorithm are also presented in this paper. K-means algorithm takes less computation time as compared to Fuzzy C-means algorithm which produces result close to that of K-means. On the other hand in FCM algorithm each pixel of an image can have membership to more than one cluster which is not in case of K-means algorithm, an advantage to FCM method. Color images contain wide variety of information and are more complicated than gray scale images. In image processing, though color image segmentation is a challenging task but provides a path for image analysis in practical application fields. Secondly some novel approaches to FCM algorithm for better image segmentation are also discussed such as SFCM (Spatial FCM) and THFCM (Thresholding FCM). Basic FCM algorithm does not take into consideration the spatial information of the image. SFCM specially focus on spatial details and contribute towards image segmentation results for image analysis. It introduces spatial function into FCM algorithm membership function and then operates with available spatial information. THFCM is another approach that focus on thresholding technique for image segmentation. It main task is to find a discerner cluster that will act as automatic threshold. These two approaches shows how better segmentation results can be obtained.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
ROI Based Image Compression in Baseline JPEGIJERA Editor
To improve the efficiency of standard JPEG compression algorithm an adaptive quantization technique based on the support for region of interest of compression is introduced. Since this is a lossy compression technique the less important bits are discarded and are not restored back during decompression. Adaptive quantization is carried out by applying two different quantization to the picture provided by the user. The user can select any part of the image and enter the required quality for compression. If according to the user the subject is more important than the background then more quality is provided to the subject than the background and vice- versa. Adaptive quantization in baseline sequential JPEG is carried out by applying Forward Discrete Cosine Transform (FDCT), two different quantization provided by the user for compression, thereby achieving region of interest compression and Inverse Discrete Cosine Transform (IDCT) for decompression. This technique makes sure that the memory is used efficiently. Moreover we have specifically designed this for identifying defects in the leather samples clearly.
Survey on clustering based color image segmentation and novel approaches to f...eSAT Journals
Abstract Segmentation is an important image processing technique that helps to analyze an image automatically. Applications involving detection or recognition of objects in images often include segmentation process. This paper describes two unsupervised clustering based color image segmentation techniques namely K-means clustering and Fuzzy C-means (FCM) clustering. The advantages and disadvantages of both K-means and Fuzzy C-means algorithm are also presented in this paper. K-means algorithm takes less computation time as compared to Fuzzy C-means algorithm which produces result close to that of K-means. On the other hand in FCM algorithm each pixel of an image can have membership to more than one cluster which is not in case of K-means algorithm, an advantage to FCM method. Color images contain wide variety of information and are more complicated than gray scale images. In image processing, though color image segmentation is a challenging task but provides a path for image analysis in practical application fields. Secondly some novel approaches to FCM algorithm for better image segmentation are also discussed such as SFCM (Spatial FCM) and THFCM (Thresholding FCM). Basic FCM algorithm does not take into consideration the spatial information of the image. SFCM specially focus on spatial details and contribute towards image segmentation results for image analysis. It introduces spatial function into FCM algorithm membership function and then operates with available spatial information. THFCM is another approach that focus on thresholding technique for image segmentation. It main task is to find a discerner cluster that will act as automatic threshold. These two approaches shows how better segmentation results can be obtained.
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
A New Approach for Segmentation of Fused Images using Cluster based ThresholdingIDES Editor
This paper proposes the new segmentation technique
with cluster based method. In this, the multi source medical
images like MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), CT
(computed tomography) & PET (positron emission
tomography) are fused and then segmented using cluster based
thresholding approach. The edge details of an image have
become an essential technique in clinical and researchoriented
applications. The more edge details of the fused image
have obtainable with this method. The objective of the
clustering process is to partition a fused image coefficients
into a number of clusters having similar features. These
features are useful to generate the threshold value for further
segmentation of fused image. Finally the segmented output
is compared with standard FCM method and modified Otsu
method. Experimental results have shown that the proposed
cluster based thresholding method is able to effectively extract
important edge details of fused image.
An Improved Way of Segmentation and Classification of Remote Sensing Images U...ijsrd.com
The Ultimate significance of Images lies in processing the digital image which stems from two principal application areas: Advances of pictorial information for human interpretation; and dispensation of image data for storage, communication, and illustration for self-sufficient machine perception. The objective of this research work is to define the meaning and possibility of image segmentation based on remote sensing images which are successively classified with statistical measures. In this paper kernel induced Possiblistic C-means clustering algorithm has been implemented for classifying remote sensing image data with image features. As a final point of the proposed work is to point out that this algorithm works well for segmenting and classifying the image with better accuracy with statistical metrices.
Fuzzy clustering Approach in segmentation of T1-T2 brain MRIIDES Editor
Segmentation is a difficult and challenging
problem in the magnetic resonance images, and it
considered as important in computer vision and artificial
intelligence. Many researchers have applied various
techniques however fuzzy c-means (FCM) based
algorithms is more effective compared to other methods.
In this paper, we present a novel FCM algorithm for
weighted bias (also called intensity in-homogeneities)
estimation and segmentation of MRI. Normally, the
intensity inhomogeneities are attributed to imperfections
in the radio-frequency coils or to the problems associated
with the image acquisition. Our algorithm is formulated
by modifying the objective function of the standard FCM
and it has the advantage that it can be applied at an early
stage in an automated data analysis. Further this paper
proposes a center knowledge method in order to reduce
the running time of proposed algorithm. The proposed
method can deal with the intensity in-homogeneities and
image noise effectively. We have compared our results
with other reported methods. The results using real MRI
data show that our method provides better results
compared to standard FCM based algorithms and other
modified FCM-based techniques.
Rough Set based Natural Image Segmentation under Game Theory Frameworkijsrd.com
The Since past few decades, image segmentation has been successfully applied to number of applications. When different image segmentation techniques are applied to an image, they produce different results especially if images are obtained under different conditions and have different attributes. Each technique works on a specific concept, such that it is important to decide as to which image segmentation technique should for a given application domain. On combining the strengths of individual segmentation techniques, the resulting integrated method yields better results thus enhancing the synergy of the individual methods alone. This work improves the segmentation technique of combining results of different methods using the concept of game theory. This is achieved through Nash equilibrium along with various similarity distance measures. Using game theory the problem is divided into modules which are considered as players. The number of modules depends on number of techniques to be integrated. The modules work in parallel and interactive manner. The effectiveness of the technique will be demonstrated by simulation results on different sets of test images.
A novel approach to Image Fusion using combination of Wavelet Transform and C...IJSRD
Panchromatic furthermore multi-spectral image fusion outstands common methods of high-resolution color image amalgamation. In digital image reconstruction, image fusion is standout pre-processing step that aims increasing hotspot image quality to extricate all suitable information from source images ruining inconsistencies or artifacts. Around the different strategies available for image fusion, Wavelet and Curvelet based algorithms are mostly preferred. Wavelet transform is useful for point singularities while Curvelet transform, as the name describes, is more useful for the analysis of images having curved shape edges. This paper reveals a study of development in the field of image fusion.
Feature Extraction of an Image by Using Adaptive Filtering and Morpological S...IOSR Journals
Abstract: For enhancing an image various enhancement schemes are used which includes gray scale manipulation, filtering and Histogram Equalization, Where Histogram equalization is one of the well known image enhancement technique. It became a popular technique for contrast enhancement because it is simple and effective. The basic idea of Histogram Equalization method is to remap the gray levels of an image. Here using morphological segmentation we can get the segmented image. Morphological reconstruction is used to segment the image. Comparative analysis of different enhancement and segmentation will be carried out. This comparison will be done on the basis of subjective and objective parameters. Subjective parameter is visual quality and objective parameters are Area, Perimeter, Min and Max intensity, Avg Voxel Intensity, Std Dev of Intensity, Eccentricity, Coefficient of skewness, Coefficient of Kurtosis, Median intensity, Mode intensity. Keywords: Histogram Equalization, Segmentation, Morphological Reconstruction .
ADOPTING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SELF ORGANIZING FEATURE MAP FOR IMAGE FUSIONijistjournal
A different image fusion algorithm based on self organizing feature map is proposed in this paper, aiming to produce quality images. Image Fusion is to integrate complementary and redundant information from multiple images of the same scene to create a single composite image that contains all the important features of the original images. The resulting fused image will thus be more suitable for human and machine perception or for further image processing tasks. The existing fusion techniques based on either direct operation on pixels or segments fail to produce fused images of the required quality and are mostly application based. The existing segmentation algorithms become complicated and time consuming when multiple images are to be fused. A new method of segmenting and fusion of gray scale images adopting Self organizing Feature Maps(SOM) is proposed in this paper. The Self Organizing Feature Maps is adopted to produce multiple slices of the source and reference images based on various combination of gray scale and can dynamically fused depending on the application. The proposed technique is adopted and analyzed for fusion of multiple images. The technique is robust in the sense that there will be no loss in information due to the property of Self Organizing Feature Maps; noise removal in the source images done during processing stage and fusion of multiple images is dynamically done to get the desired results. Experimental results demonstrate that, for the quality multifocus image fusion, the proposed method performs better than some popular image fusion methods in both subjective and objective qualities.
Optimal Coefficient Selection For Medical Image FusionIJERA Editor
Medical image fusion is one of the major research fields in image processing. Medical imaging has become a
vital component in major clinical applications such as detection/ diagnosis and treatment. Joint analysis of
medical data collected from same patient using different modalities is required in many clinical applications.
This paper introduces an optimal fusion technique for multiscale-decomposition based fusion of medical images
and measuring its performance with existing fusion techniques. This approach incorporates genetic algorithm
for optimal coefficient selection and employ various multiscale filters for noise removal. Experiments
demonstrate that proposed fusion technique generate better results than existing rules. The performance of
proposed system is found to be superior to existing schemes used in this literature.
QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF PIXEL-LEVEL IMAGE FUSION USING FUZZY LOGICijsc
Image fusion is to reduce uncertainty and minimize redundancy in the output while maximizing relevant information from two or more images of a scene into a single composite image that is more informative and is more suitable for visual perception or processing tasks like medical imaging, remote sensing, concealed weapon detection, weather forecasting, biometrics etc. Image fusion combines registered images to
produce a high quality fused image with spatial and spectral information. The fused image with more information will improve the performance of image analysis algorithms used in different applications. In this paper, we proposed a fuzzy logic method to fuse images from different sensors, in order to enhance the
quality and compared proposed method with two other methods i.e. image fusion using wavelet transform and weighted average discrete wavelet transform based image fusion using genetic algorithm (here onwards abbreviated as GA) along with quality evaluation parameters image quality index (IQI), mutual
information measure ( MIM), root mean square error (RMSE), peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), fusion factor (FF), fusion symmetry (FS) and fusion index (FI) and entropy. The results obtained from proposed fuzzy based image fusion approach improves quality of fused image as compared to earlier reported
methods, wavelet transform based image fusion and weighted average discrete wavelet transform based
image fusion using genetic algorithm.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Explaining the idea behind automatic relevance determination and bayesian int...Florian Wilhelm
Even in the era of Big Data there are many real-world problems where the number of input features has about the some order of magnitude than the number of samples. Often many of those input features are irrelevant and thus inferring the relevant ones is an important problem in order to prevent over-fitting. Automatic Relevance Determination solves this problem by applying Bayesian techniques.
A New Approach for Segmentation of Fused Images using Cluster based ThresholdingIDES Editor
This paper proposes the new segmentation technique
with cluster based method. In this, the multi source medical
images like MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), CT
(computed tomography) & PET (positron emission
tomography) are fused and then segmented using cluster based
thresholding approach. The edge details of an image have
become an essential technique in clinical and researchoriented
applications. The more edge details of the fused image
have obtainable with this method. The objective of the
clustering process is to partition a fused image coefficients
into a number of clusters having similar features. These
features are useful to generate the threshold value for further
segmentation of fused image. Finally the segmented output
is compared with standard FCM method and modified Otsu
method. Experimental results have shown that the proposed
cluster based thresholding method is able to effectively extract
important edge details of fused image.
An Improved Way of Segmentation and Classification of Remote Sensing Images U...ijsrd.com
The Ultimate significance of Images lies in processing the digital image which stems from two principal application areas: Advances of pictorial information for human interpretation; and dispensation of image data for storage, communication, and illustration for self-sufficient machine perception. The objective of this research work is to define the meaning and possibility of image segmentation based on remote sensing images which are successively classified with statistical measures. In this paper kernel induced Possiblistic C-means clustering algorithm has been implemented for classifying remote sensing image data with image features. As a final point of the proposed work is to point out that this algorithm works well for segmenting and classifying the image with better accuracy with statistical metrices.
Fuzzy clustering Approach in segmentation of T1-T2 brain MRIIDES Editor
Segmentation is a difficult and challenging
problem in the magnetic resonance images, and it
considered as important in computer vision and artificial
intelligence. Many researchers have applied various
techniques however fuzzy c-means (FCM) based
algorithms is more effective compared to other methods.
In this paper, we present a novel FCM algorithm for
weighted bias (also called intensity in-homogeneities)
estimation and segmentation of MRI. Normally, the
intensity inhomogeneities are attributed to imperfections
in the radio-frequency coils or to the problems associated
with the image acquisition. Our algorithm is formulated
by modifying the objective function of the standard FCM
and it has the advantage that it can be applied at an early
stage in an automated data analysis. Further this paper
proposes a center knowledge method in order to reduce
the running time of proposed algorithm. The proposed
method can deal with the intensity in-homogeneities and
image noise effectively. We have compared our results
with other reported methods. The results using real MRI
data show that our method provides better results
compared to standard FCM based algorithms and other
modified FCM-based techniques.
Rough Set based Natural Image Segmentation under Game Theory Frameworkijsrd.com
The Since past few decades, image segmentation has been successfully applied to number of applications. When different image segmentation techniques are applied to an image, they produce different results especially if images are obtained under different conditions and have different attributes. Each technique works on a specific concept, such that it is important to decide as to which image segmentation technique should for a given application domain. On combining the strengths of individual segmentation techniques, the resulting integrated method yields better results thus enhancing the synergy of the individual methods alone. This work improves the segmentation technique of combining results of different methods using the concept of game theory. This is achieved through Nash equilibrium along with various similarity distance measures. Using game theory the problem is divided into modules which are considered as players. The number of modules depends on number of techniques to be integrated. The modules work in parallel and interactive manner. The effectiveness of the technique will be demonstrated by simulation results on different sets of test images.
A novel approach to Image Fusion using combination of Wavelet Transform and C...IJSRD
Panchromatic furthermore multi-spectral image fusion outstands common methods of high-resolution color image amalgamation. In digital image reconstruction, image fusion is standout pre-processing step that aims increasing hotspot image quality to extricate all suitable information from source images ruining inconsistencies or artifacts. Around the different strategies available for image fusion, Wavelet and Curvelet based algorithms are mostly preferred. Wavelet transform is useful for point singularities while Curvelet transform, as the name describes, is more useful for the analysis of images having curved shape edges. This paper reveals a study of development in the field of image fusion.
Feature Extraction of an Image by Using Adaptive Filtering and Morpological S...IOSR Journals
Abstract: For enhancing an image various enhancement schemes are used which includes gray scale manipulation, filtering and Histogram Equalization, Where Histogram equalization is one of the well known image enhancement technique. It became a popular technique for contrast enhancement because it is simple and effective. The basic idea of Histogram Equalization method is to remap the gray levels of an image. Here using morphological segmentation we can get the segmented image. Morphological reconstruction is used to segment the image. Comparative analysis of different enhancement and segmentation will be carried out. This comparison will be done on the basis of subjective and objective parameters. Subjective parameter is visual quality and objective parameters are Area, Perimeter, Min and Max intensity, Avg Voxel Intensity, Std Dev of Intensity, Eccentricity, Coefficient of skewness, Coefficient of Kurtosis, Median intensity, Mode intensity. Keywords: Histogram Equalization, Segmentation, Morphological Reconstruction .
ADOPTING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF SELF ORGANIZING FEATURE MAP FOR IMAGE FUSIONijistjournal
A different image fusion algorithm based on self organizing feature map is proposed in this paper, aiming to produce quality images. Image Fusion is to integrate complementary and redundant information from multiple images of the same scene to create a single composite image that contains all the important features of the original images. The resulting fused image will thus be more suitable for human and machine perception or for further image processing tasks. The existing fusion techniques based on either direct operation on pixels or segments fail to produce fused images of the required quality and are mostly application based. The existing segmentation algorithms become complicated and time consuming when multiple images are to be fused. A new method of segmenting and fusion of gray scale images adopting Self organizing Feature Maps(SOM) is proposed in this paper. The Self Organizing Feature Maps is adopted to produce multiple slices of the source and reference images based on various combination of gray scale and can dynamically fused depending on the application. The proposed technique is adopted and analyzed for fusion of multiple images. The technique is robust in the sense that there will be no loss in information due to the property of Self Organizing Feature Maps; noise removal in the source images done during processing stage and fusion of multiple images is dynamically done to get the desired results. Experimental results demonstrate that, for the quality multifocus image fusion, the proposed method performs better than some popular image fusion methods in both subjective and objective qualities.
Optimal Coefficient Selection For Medical Image FusionIJERA Editor
Medical image fusion is one of the major research fields in image processing. Medical imaging has become a
vital component in major clinical applications such as detection/ diagnosis and treatment. Joint analysis of
medical data collected from same patient using different modalities is required in many clinical applications.
This paper introduces an optimal fusion technique for multiscale-decomposition based fusion of medical images
and measuring its performance with existing fusion techniques. This approach incorporates genetic algorithm
for optimal coefficient selection and employ various multiscale filters for noise removal. Experiments
demonstrate that proposed fusion technique generate better results than existing rules. The performance of
proposed system is found to be superior to existing schemes used in this literature.
QUALITY ASSESSMENT OF PIXEL-LEVEL IMAGE FUSION USING FUZZY LOGICijsc
Image fusion is to reduce uncertainty and minimize redundancy in the output while maximizing relevant information from two or more images of a scene into a single composite image that is more informative and is more suitable for visual perception or processing tasks like medical imaging, remote sensing, concealed weapon detection, weather forecasting, biometrics etc. Image fusion combines registered images to
produce a high quality fused image with spatial and spectral information. The fused image with more information will improve the performance of image analysis algorithms used in different applications. In this paper, we proposed a fuzzy logic method to fuse images from different sensors, in order to enhance the
quality and compared proposed method with two other methods i.e. image fusion using wavelet transform and weighted average discrete wavelet transform based image fusion using genetic algorithm (here onwards abbreviated as GA) along with quality evaluation parameters image quality index (IQI), mutual
information measure ( MIM), root mean square error (RMSE), peak signal to noise ratio (PSNR), fusion factor (FF), fusion symmetry (FS) and fusion index (FI) and entropy. The results obtained from proposed fuzzy based image fusion approach improves quality of fused image as compared to earlier reported
methods, wavelet transform based image fusion and weighted average discrete wavelet transform based
image fusion using genetic algorithm.
International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications (IJERA) is an open access online peer reviewed international journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of Computer Science, Neural Networks, Electrical Engineering, Software Engineering, Information Technology, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Plastic Engineering, Food Technology, Textile Engineering, Nano Technology & science, Power Electronics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, Computational mathematics, Image processing, Civil Engineering, Structural Engineering, Environmental Engineering, VLSI Testing & Low Power VLSI Design etc.
Explaining the idea behind automatic relevance determination and bayesian int...Florian Wilhelm
Even in the era of Big Data there are many real-world problems where the number of input features has about the some order of magnitude than the number of samples. Often many of those input features are irrelevant and thus inferring the relevant ones is an important problem in order to prevent over-fitting. Automatic Relevance Determination solves this problem by applying Bayesian techniques.
Geometric Correction for Braille Document Images csandit
Image processing is an important research area in computer vision. clustering is an unsupervised
study. clustering can also be used for image segmentation. there exist so many methods for image
segmentation. image segmentation plays an important role in image analysis.it is one of the first
and the most important tasks in image analysis and computer vision. this proposed system
presents a variation of fuzzy c-means algorithm that provides image clustering. the kernel fuzzy
c-means clustering algorithm (kfcm) is derived from the fuzzy c-means clustering
algorithm(fcm).the kfcm algorithm that provides image clustering and improves accuracy
significantly compared with classical fuzzy c-means algorithm. the new algorithm is called
gaussian kernel based fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm (gkfcm)the major characteristic of
gkfcm is the use of a fuzzy clustering approach ,aiming to guarantee noise insensitiveness and
image detail preservation.. the objective of the work is to cluster the low intensity in homogeneity
area from the noisy images, using the clustering method, segmenting that portion separately using
content level set approach. the purpose of designing this system is to produce better segmentation
results for images corrupted by noise, so that it can be useful in various fields like medical image
analysis, such as tumor detection, study of anatomical structure, and treatment planning.
GAUSSIAN KERNEL BASED FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATIONcscpconf
Image processing is an important research area in computer vision. clustering is an unsupervised study. clustering can also be used for image segmentation. there exist so many methods for image segmentation. image segmentation plays an important role in image analysis.it is one of the first and the most important tasks in image analysis and computer vision. this proposed system presents a variation of fuzzy c-means algorithm that provides image clustering. the kernel fuzzy
c-means clustering algorithm (kfcm) is derived from the fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm(fcm).the kfcm algorithm that provides image clustering and improves accuracy significantly compared with classical fuzzy c-means algorithm. the new algorithm is called gaussian kernel based fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm (gkfcm)the major characteristic of gkfcm is the use of a fuzzy clustering approach ,aiming to guarantee noise insensitiveness and image detail preservation.. the objective of the work is to cluster the low intensity in homogeneity area from the noisy images, using the clustering method, segmenting that portion separately using content level set approach. the purpose of designing this system is to produce better segmentation results for images corrupted by noise, so that it can be useful in various fields like medical image analysis, such as tumor detection, study of anatomical structure, and treatment planning.
GAUSSIAN KERNEL BASED FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING ALGORITHM FOR IMAGE SEGMENTATIONcsandit
Image processing is an important research area in computer vision. clustering is an unsupervised
study. clustering can also be used for image segmentation. there exist so many methods for image
segmentation. image segmentation plays an important role in image analysis.it is one of the first
and the most important tasks in image analysis and computer vision. this proposed system
presents a variation of fuzzy c-means algorithm that provides image clustering. the kernel fuzzy
c-means clustering algorithm (kfcm) is derived from the fuzzy c-means clustering
algorithm(fcm).the kfcm algorithm that provides image clustering and improves accuracy
significantly compared with classical fuzzy c-means algorithm. the new algorithm is called
gaussian kernel based fuzzy c-means clustering algorithm (gkfcm)the major characteristic of
gkfcm is the use of a fuzzy clustering approach ,aiming to guarantee noise insensitiveness and
image detail preservation.. the objective of the work is to cluster the low intensity in homogeneity
area from the noisy images, using the clustering method, segmenting that portion separately using
content level set approach. the purpose of designing this system is to produce better segmentation
results for images corrupted by noise, so that it can be useful in various fields like medical image
analysis, such as tumor detection, study of anatomical structure, and treatment planning.
A Survey on Image Segmentation and its Applications in Image Processing IJEEE
As technology grows day by day computer vision becomes a vital field of understanding the behavior of an image. Image segmentation is a sub field of computer vision that deals with the partition of objects into number of segments. Image segmentation found a huge application in pattern reorganization, texture analysis as well as in medial image processing. This paper focus on distinct sort of image segmentation techniques that are utilized in computer vision. Thus a survey has been created for various image segmentation techniques that describe the importance of the same. Comparison and conclusion has been created within the finish of this paper.
MAGNETIC RESONANCE BRAIN IMAGE SEGMENTATIONVLSICS Design
Segmentation of tissues and structures from medical images is the first step in many image analysis applications developed for medical diagnosis. With the growing research on medical image segmentation, it is essential to categorize the research outcomes and provide researchers with an overview of the existing segmentation techniques in medical images. In this paper, different image segmentation methods applied on magnetic resonance brain images are reviewed. The selection of methods includes sources from image processing journals, conferences, books, dissertations and thesis. The conceptual details of the methods are explained and mathematical details are avoided for simplicity. Both broad and detailed categorizations of reviewed segmentation techniques are provided. The state of art research is provided with emphasis on developed techniques and image properties used by them. The methods defined are not always mutually independent. Hence, their inter relationships are also stated. Finally, conclusions are drawn summarizing commonly used techniques and their complexities in application.
A Review on Image Segmentation using Clustering and Swarm Optimization Techni...IJSRD
The process of dividing an image into multiple regions (set of pixels) is known as Image segmentation. It will make an image easy and smooth to evaluate. Image segmentation objective is to generate image more simple and meaningful. In this paper present a survey on image segmentation general segmentation techniques, clustering algorithms and optimization methods. Also a study of different research also been presented. The latest research in each of image segmentation methods is presented in this study. This paper presents the recent research in biologically inspired swarm optimization techniques, including ant colony optimization algorithm, particle swarm optimization algorithm, artificial bee colony algorithm and their hybridizations, which are applied in several fields.
PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF CLUSTERING BASED IMAGE SEGMENTATION AND OPTIMIZATION ...cscpconf
Partitioning of an image into several constituent components is called image segmentation.
Myriad algorithms using different methods have been proposed for image segmentation. Many
clustering algorithms and optimization techniques are also being used for segmentation of
images. A major challenge in segmentation evaluation comes from the fundamental conflict
between generality and objectivity. As there is a glut of image segmentation techniques
available today, customer who is the real user of these techniques may get obfuscated. In this
paper to address the above described problem some image segmentation techniques are evaluated based on their consistency in different applications. Based on the parameters used quantification of different clustering algorithms is done.
Segmentation by Fusion of Self-Adaptive SFCM Cluster in Multi-Color Space Com...CSCJournals
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Automatic Determination Number of Cluster for NMKFC-Means Algorithms on Image Segmentation
1. IOSR Journal of Computer Engineering (IOSR-JCE)
e-ISSN: 2278-0661,p-ISSN: 2278-8727, Volume 17, Issue 1, Ver. 2 (Jan – Feb. 2015), PP 12-19
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Automatic Determination Number of Cluster for NMKFC-Means
Algorithms on Image Segmentation
Pradip M. Paithane1
, Prof. S.A. Kinariwala2
1
(PG Student, Computer Science and Engineering Department, MIT Aurangabad, India)
2
(Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering Department, MIT Aurangabad, India)
Abstract: Image segmentation plays an important role in image analysis. Image segmentation is useful in many
applications like medical, face recognition, crop disease detection, and geographical object detection in map.
Image segmentation is performed by clustering method. Clustering method is divided into Crisp and Fuzzy
clustering methods. FCM is famous method used in fuzzy clustering to improve result of image segmentation.
FCM does not work properly in noisy and nonlinear separable image, to overcome this drawback, KFCM
method for image segmentation can be used. In KFCM method, Gaussian kernel function is used to convert
nonlinear separable data into linear separable data and high dimensional data and then apply FCM on this
data. KFCM is improving result of noisy image segmentation. KFCM improves accuracy rate but does not focus
on neighbor pixel. NMKFCM method incorporates neighborhood pixel information into objective function and
improves result of image segmentation. New proposed algorithm is effective and efficient than other fuzzy
clustering algorithms and it has better performance in noisy and noiseless images. In noisy image, find
automatically required number of cluster with the help of Hill-climbing algorithm.
Keyword: Component: Clustering, Fuzzy clustering, FCM, Hill-climbing algorithm, KFCM, NMKFCM
I.Introduction
Image segmentation is a major topic for many image processing research. Image segmentation is
critical and essential component of image analysis system. Image segmentation is process of partitioning image
into different segment (set of pixel). Segment consist set of similar pixel by using different properties of pixel
like intensity, color, tone, texture etc. The goal of image segmentation is to simplify or change the representation
of an image into something that is more meaningful and easier to analyze. Image segmentation is performed
using four approaches like Clustering, Thresholding, Region Extraction and Edge Detection,. Image
segmentation plays more crucial role in many applications like medical image, pattern recognition, machine
vision, computer vision, video surveillance, geographical object detection, image analysis, crop disease
detection.
Clustering is one approach to perform image segmentation on image. Clustering is a process of
partitioning or grouping a given set of unlabeled objects into number of clusters such that similar objects are
allocated to one cluster [1]. Clustering method perform by using two main approaches like crisp clustering and
fuzzy clustering[2]. Crisp clustering is to process in which finding boundary between clusters. In this object
belong to only one cluster. Fuzzy clustering has better solution for this problem, in fuzzy clustering object can
belong to more than one cluster.
Fuzzy C-means (FCM) algorithm is most widely used clustering technique which follows fuzzy
clustering for image segmentation. FCM clustering algorithm was first introduced by Dunn and later extended
by Bezdek [3][1]. FCM is method of clustering to which allow one object belongs to two or more clusters. FCM
is introducing fuzziness with degree of membership function of every object and range of membership function
between 0 and 1[4]. Aim of FCM is to minimize value of objective function and perform partition on dataset
into n number of clusters. FCM provide better accuracy result than HCM in noiseless image. FCM is not
working properly in noisy image and failed in nonlinear separable data, to overcome this drawback Kernel
Fuzzy C-means (KFCM) algorithm is used. Kernel function is use to convert nonlinear separable data into linear
separable data and low dimension into high dimensional feature space[5]. KFCM is not adequate for image
corrupted by impulse noise. KFCM is not to focus on neighbor pixel. Propose Novel Kernel Fuzzy C-means
(NMKFCM) algorithm which is to assimilate neighbor term in objective function and amend result over KFCM
and FCM in noisy and noiseless image[6]. NMKFCM is very beneficial and useful method for image
segmentation.
II.Clustering Algorithm
Definition: Let F be the set of all pixels and P( ) be an uniformity (homogeneity) predicate defined on groups of
associated pixels, then segmentation is a partitioning of the set F into a set of connected subsets or regions
such that with when i ≠ j. The uniformity predicate P(Si) is true for all
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regions Si and P(Si Sj) is false when Si is adjacent to Sj. Image segmentation approaches can be divided into
four categories: Thresholding, Clustering, Edge detection, Region extraction Clustering is process of
partitioning or grouping a given set of unlabeled objects into number of clusters such that similar object are
allocated into one cluster. Clustering is performed with minimize value objective function for image
segmentation. Clustering methods can be classified into supervised clustering and unsupervised clustering [6]. A
cluster is a collection of data objects that are similar to one another within the same cluster and are dissimilar to
the objects in other clusters. Clustering is classified into crisp and fuzzy clustering.
A. Fuzzy Clustering Algorithm (FCM)
FCM algorithm was introduced by Dunn and extended by Bezdek. Aim of fuzzy c-means algorithm is
to minimize an objective function [7]. The fuzzy c- mean algorithm is better than the k-mean algorithm, since in
k-mean algorithm, feature vectors of the data set can be partitioned into hard clusters, and the feature vector can
be exactly a member of one cluster only. Instead, the fuzzy c-mean relax the condition, and it allows the feature
vector to have multiple membership grades to several clusters, Suppose the data set with known clusters and a
data point which is close to both clusters but also equidistant to them. Fuzzy clustering gracefully handles with
such dilemmas by assigning this data point equal but partial memberships to both clusters that are the point may
belong to both clusters with some degree of membership grades varies from 0 to 1.
FCM is an iterative clustering process that generate optimal c partition by using minimize weighted within
group sum of squared error objective function Jm
(1)
Where:
N: The number of patterns in X , C: The number of clusters, Uij: The degree of membership xi of in the jth
cluster
, Wj: The prototype of the center of cluster j ,dij: Distance measure between object Xi and cluster center Wj , m:
The weighting exponent on each fuzzy membership.
The FCM algorithm focuses on minimizing objective function Jm, focus to the following constraints on U:
Uij∈[0,1], i=1,2,3……N, and j=1,2,3….C
i=1, 2, 3………..N
j=1, 2, 3…….C
Objective function jm describe a constrained optimization problem, which can be altered to an unconstrained
optimization problem by using Lagrange multiplier technique. By using this calculates membership function and
update cluster center separately.
(2)
i=1,2……..N, and j,l=1,2,……………C
If dij=0 then Uij=1 and Uij=0 for 1≠j
And calculate cluster center using following step
, (3)
j=1,2…………C
Algorithm:
Jm can be obtain through an iterative process, which is achieved by following steps
INPUT
1. X={X1, X2….Xn}, Data set
2. C, 2≤C≤n, n is number of cluster
3. Set value of Ɛ, it is stopping criteria parameter
4. Initialize membership function
0
ijU
using data set and cluster.
5. Calculate initial cluster center W0= (w01, w02…w0c)
OUTPUT
Wj = {W0, W1, W2……Wj} , Final center of clusters.
Algorithm
1. Set loop counter p=0
2. Calculate C cluster center
p
jW
with
p
U by using equation (3)
3. Calculate membership function
1p
U
by using equation. (2).
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4. If
1p p
U U
, then stop otherwise set p=p+1 and go to step 2.
C. Kernel Method
Kernel method is an algorithm that implicitly performs, by replacing the inner product with an
appropriate Mercer Kernel, a non-linear mapping of the input data to a high dimensional Feature Space. A
kernel function is a generalization of the distance metric that measures the distance between two data points as
the data points are mapped into a high dimensional space in which they are more clearly separable [8].
Consider a non-linear mapping function from the 2-dimensional input space I into the 3-
dimensional feature space F, which is defined in the following equations:
(4)
Hyperplane of form linear separable dataset.
b= 0
Taking the equation for a separating hyper plane Eq.(4) into account get a linear function in :
(5)
It is worth mentioning, that Eq.(5) is an elliptic function when set to a constant c and evaluated in .
With an appropriate mapping function use linear classifier in F on a transformed version of the data to
get a non-linear classifier in I with no effort. After mapping non-linear separable data into a higher dimensional
space, find a linear separating hyperplane. Only depend on the mapped data through dot products in some
feature space F. The explicit coordinates in F and even the mapping function become unnecessary when we
define a function so called kernel function, which is directly determines the value of the
dot product of the mapped data points in some feature space. The following example of a kernel function K
demonstrates the calculation of the dot product in the feature space using and inducing the
mapping function
(6)
=
=
The advantage of kernel function is that the complexity of the optimization problem remains only dependent on
the dimensionality of the input space and not of the feature space.
Kernel function K(X, Z) has some form, these form mention below:
1) Linear Kernel function:
2) Polynomial Kernel function:
3) Gaussian Kernel function:
4) Sigmoid Kernel Function:
D. Kernel Fuzzy c-means Algorithm (KFCM)
The FCM algorithm use Euclidian distance to calculate distance between cluster center and data object.
Euclidian distance is not working properly in noisy data so FCM fail in noisy and nonlinear data set. To
overcome this drawback, Kernel Fuzzy C-means algorithm is used. KFCM method consists of kernel
information with FCM [9]. KFCM is performing map input data into a feature space with higher dimensional
and convert nonlinear separable data into linear separable data by using Kernel method. KFCM having more
accuracy than FCM in noisy image and it clearly classify noisy object into clusters. KFCM membership matrix
U is allowed to have value between 0 and 1. KFCM is iterative clustering methods that generate optimal c
partition by using minimize objective function Jkfcm.
(7)
In this objective function Gaussian kernel function is used.
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=
=
=
=
Introduce kernel function in FCM and minimize objective function Jkm.
(8)
Objective function jm describe a constrained optimization problem, which can be changed to an unconstrained
optimization problem by using Lagrange multiplier technique. By using this calculates membership function and
update cluster center separately
(9)
Calculate cluster center using following step
(10)
Algorithm:
Jkm can be obtain through an iterative process, which is achieved by following steps
INPUT
1. X={X1, X2….XN}, Data set
2. C, 2≤C≤n, n is number of cluster
3. Set value of Ɛ, it is stopping criteria parameter
4. Initialize membership function
0
ijU
using data set and cluster.
5. Calculate initial cluster center W0= (w01, w02…w0c)
OUTPUT
Wj = {W0, W1, W2……Wj} , Final center of clusters.
Step:
1. Set loop counter p=0
2. Calculate C cluster center
p
jW
with
p
U by using equation (10)
3. Calculate membership function
1p
U
by using equation. (9).
4. If
1p p
U U
, then stop otherwise set p=p+1 and go to step 2.
KFCM it work properly in noisy image but KFCM not focus on neighborhood term.
E. Novel Modified Kernel fuzzy c-Means Algorithm (NMKFCM)
Novel modified kernel fuzzy method is assimilating neighborhood pixel value in objective function.
Novel modified kernel fuzzy c-means algorithm is modified version of KFCM. NMKFCM which incorporate
neighborhood pixel value using 3×3 or 5×5 window and introduce this value in objective function[10][1]. In this
„∝‟ parameter is used to control effect of neighbor‟s term which is getting higher value with increase of image
noise. Range of ∝ value lies within 0 to 1, if percentage of noise is low then choose value of ∝ between 0 and
0.5 and percentage of noise is higher then choose value of ∝ 0.5 and 1.0. NMKFCM is an iterative process
which minimizes value of objective function with neighborhood term[11]. In this objective function introduce
window around pixel and ∝ parameter.
(10)
Where:NR: The cardinality, Ni: Set of neighbors falling into a window around pixel Xi,,
Objective function jnmkm describe a constrained optimization problem, which can be converted to an
unconstrained optimization problem by using Lagrange multiplier technique. By using this calculates
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membership function and update cluster center separately.
(11)
And calculate cluster center using following step.
(12)
Algorithm:
Jnmkm can be obtain through an iterative process, which is achieved by following steps
INPUT
1. X={X1, X2….XN}, Data set
2. C, 2≤C≤n, n is number of cluster
3. Set value of Ɛ, it is stopping criteria parameter
4. Initialize membership function
0
ijU
using data set and cluster.
5. Calculate initial cluster center W0= (w01, w02…w0c)
OUTPUT
Wj = {W0, W1, W2……Wj} , Final center of clusters.
Step:
1. Set loop counter p=0
2. Calculate C cluster center
p
jW
with
p
U by using equation (12)
3. Calculate membership function
1p
U
by using equation. (11).
4. If
1p p
U U
, then stop otherwise set p=p+1 and go to step 2.
III.Hill-climb algorithm
Image segmentation is a very important part of image processing. Detection of salient image regions is
useful for applications like image segmentation, adaptive compression and region –based image retrieval.
Saliency is determined as the local contrast of an image region with respect to its neighborhood at various scales
[12]. For finding salient regions uses a contrast determination filter that operates at various scales to generate
saliency maps containing saliency values per pixel.
In this evaluate distance between the average feature vectors of the pixel of an image sub-region with
average feature vector of the pixels of its neighborhood. At a given scale, the contrast based saliency value
for a pixel at position (i, j) in the image is determined as the distance D between the average vectors of pixel
features of the inner region R1 and that of the outer region R2.
(13)
Where N1 and N2 are the number of pixels in R1 and R2 respectively, and v is the vector of feature
elements corresponding to a pixel. The distance D is a Euclidean distance if v is a vector of uncorrelated feature
elements, and it is a Mahalanobis distance if the elements of the vector are correlated. In this work, CIELab
color space, assuming RGB images, to generate feature vectors for color and luminance. Since perceptual
differences in CIELab color space are approximately Euclidian, D in equation (13).
(14)
Where v1 = [L1; a1; b1]T and v2 = [L2; a2; b2]T are the average vectors for regions R1 and R2, respectively.
The final saliency map is calculated as a sum of saliency values across the scales S:
(15)
The hill-climbing algorithm can be seen as a search window being run across the space of the d-dimensional
histogram to find the largest bin within that window.
Algorithm:
1. Find the color histogram of image.
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2. Starting with non zero bin , the uphill move is made if the number of pixels in the current bin is different from
other bins towards the bin with greater number of pixels and we continue it till we find no neighboring bin with
larger number of pixels.
3. These initial peaks are the number of clusters.
4. Neighboring pixels that lead to the same peaks are grouped together
IV.Experimental Result
NMKFCM method is performing segmentation on real image, medical image and synthetical image.
NMKFCM method is improved result of image segmentation as compare to FCM and KFCM. Three types of
parameter are used to evaluate the performance of NMKFCM method like CAR, Runtime and Number of
iteration.
All experiments were run on a computer with Intel Celeron processor M 1.7 GHz, 512-MB memory, the
OS is Microsoft Windows XP, and the plat is MATLAB 6.5. To evaluate performance of the clustering
algorithms, we use Clustering Accuracy Rate(CAR) which is defined
(16)
Where Aij is represent the set of pixel belonging to jth
class found by ith
algorithm and Arefj represent the set of
pixel belonging to the jth
class in the reference segmented image. By using this formula calculate accuracy rate.
Experiment I(Real Image): We apply three fuzzy clustering algorithms to real image and Add 2%,5% and 10%
salt and pepper noise into real image. Hill-climbing algorithm automatically determines cluster number 13 is
used in image segmentation
(a) (b) (c) (d)
Fig. 1: Real image without noise (a) Real Image (b) FCM (c) KFCM (d) NMKFCM
Table 1: Comparison with fuzzy clustering algorithms using Cluster Accuracy Rate
In all cases,
NMKFCM has improved accuracy rate as compare to other fuzzy clustering algorithms.
In NMKFCM choose ∝ value from 0 to 0.5 for less noisy image and for noisier image choose ∝ value from 0.5
to 1, NR=8.
0
50
100
0% 2% 5% 10%
ClusterAccuracy
Rate
Noise %
CAR
FCM
KFCM
NMKFCM
Fig. 2: Comparison between fuzzy clustering algorithms using Cluster Accuracy Rate
Table 2: Runtime for Real image without noise
% NOISE FCM KFCM NMKFCM
0% 68.3671% 70.2319% 74.3112%
2% 72.1148% 72.5515% 80.2062%
5% 61.4426% 84.6165% 91.763%
10% 61.1302% 77.6205% 83.4534%
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Experiment II(Medical Image): We apply three fuzzy clustering algorithms to medical image and Add 2%,5%
and 10% salt and pepper noise into real image. Hill-climbing algorithm automatically determines cluster number
17 is used in image segmentation for noiseless image.
(a) (b) (c) (d) (e) (f)
(g) (h) (i) (j) (k) (l)
(m) (n) (o) (p)
Fig.3:(a) Medical Image (b) FCM, (c) KFCM (d) NMKFCM (e) 2% Gaussian noise medical image (f)2% Noise
FCM (g)2% Noise KFCM (h)2% Noise NMKFCM,(i)5% Gaussian Noise Medical Image (j)5% Noise FCM
(k)5% Noise KFCM (l)5% Noise NMKFCM (m)10% Gaussian Noise Medical image,(n)10% Noise
FCM,(o)10% Noise KFCM,(p)10% Noise NMKFCM
In fig.3(a) noiseless medical image, we required number of cluster is 17 which is calculated with help of Hill-
climb algorithm. In NMKFCM choose ∝ value from 0 to 0.5 for less noisy image and for noisier image choose
∝ value from 0.5 to 1, NR=8.
Table 3: Comparison between FCM, KFCM and NMKFCM using CAR
Fig.4: Comparison between FCM, KFCM, and NMKFCM using CAR value Table III
V.Conclusion
Method Runtime In Second
FCM 4.2755 sec
KFCM 5.2075 sec
NMKFCM 4.2084 sec
Noise % FCM KFCM NKFCM
0% 70.7439% 68.6309% 72.0572%
2% 70.4721% 69.5362% 72.6506%
5% 69.8048% 73.467% 76.0044%
10% 75.6375% 69.6031% 75.7221%
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Proposed algorithm gives efficient image segmentation than FCM and KFCM fuzzy clustering
algorithms. Proposed method improves the segmentation performance by incorporating the effect of neighbor
pixel information.. Proposed algorithm has determined automatically required cluster number for image
segmentation. There are several things that could be done in the future as the continuation of this work. At
firstly, in noisy image propose algorithm which can be determined automatically cluster number but this number
is not useful for image segmentation because proposed algorithm has been generated cluster for noisy pixel so
image segmentation could not be effective as compare to noiseless pixel. Secondly choosing of optimal
parameter α is still an important issue, proposed algorithm assign value of optimal parameter α randomly.
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