A Novel Method for Edge Detection in Images Based on Particle Swarm Optimization
B. Cynthia Sherin, L. Mredhula · Journal of Physics Conference Series · 2017
Edges give important structural information about the images. Edge detection is a process of identifying and locating the edges in an image. Edges are the points where discontinuity of intensity occurs. It also represents the boundaries of objects in images. In this paper a new edge detection method based on Particle Swarm Optimization is discussed. The proposed method uses morphological operations and a thresholding technique to improve the result of edge detector. This algorithm performs better in images comparing to other traditional methods of edge detection. The performance of proposed method is compared with traditional edge detection methods such as Sobel, Prewitt, Laplacian of Gaussian and Canny with parameters Baddeley's Delta Metric. Statistical analysis is performed to evaluate accuracy of edge detection techniques.