Grayscale Image Enhancement Using Improved Cuckoo Search Algorithm

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Abstract

Meta-heuristic algorithms have been proved to play a significant role in the automatic image enhancement domain which can be regarded as an optimization question. Cuckoo search algorithm is one such algorithm which uses Levy flight distribution to find out the optimized parameters affecting the enhanced image. In this paper, improved cuckoo search algorithm is proposed which is used to achieve the better optimized results. The proposed method is implemented on some test images, and results are compared with original cuckoo search algorithm.

Keywords

Image enhancement Cuckoo search Meta-heuristics Gauss distribution Improved cuckoo search algorithm 
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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Guru Nanak Dev UniversityAmritsarIndia

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