Inspired by the collective behavior of natural swarm, swarm intelligence algorithms (SIAs)
have been developed and widely used for solving optimization problems. When applied to …

Deformable models are segmentation techniques that adapt a curve with the goal of
maximizing its overlap with the actual contour of an object of interest within an image. Such …

Computer vision (CV) is a big and important field in artificial intelligence covering a wide
range of applications. Image analysis is a major task in CV aiming to extract, analyze and …

In this paper, a new metaheuristic optimization algorithm based on the law of
thermodynamics and heat transfer is introduced. In the proposed algorithm, the search …

This paper presents an Improved Differential Evolution (IDE) algorithm for solving global
numerical optimization problems over continuous space. The proposed algorithm introduces …

In this paper, we investigate the potential of vision-based object detection algorithms in
underwater environments using several datasets to highlight the issues arising in different …

This paper presents an optimization of shell-and-tube heat exchangers (STHEs) considering
as objective function the minimization of the total annual cost by Differential Evolution (DE) …

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) and swarm algorithms (SAs) have shown their usefulness in
solving combinatorial and NP-hard optimization problems in various research fields …

An object detection system finds objects of the real world present either in a digital image or
a video, where the object can belong to any class of objects namely humans, cars, etc. In …

This study introduces a novel meta-heuristic algorithm known as Homonuclear Molecules
Optimization (HMO) for optimizing complex and nonlinear problems. HMO is inspired by the …