Research Article

Hierarchical Artificial Bee Colony Optimizer with Divide-and-Conquer and Crossover for Multilevel Threshold Image Segmentation

Table 1

Parameters of the HABC.


The number of species in top level
Subpopulation dividing -dimensions into -dimensions
Subpopulation size
Corresponding to a population of -dimensions, where
Dimensions of optimization problem
Top level population’s (species) ID counter from 1 to
Button level population’s ID counter from 1 to
The th population (of the th species)
CRSelection rate for replacing the offspring to the selected individuals.
The hierarchical interaction topology of HABC
The objective optimization goals