Title: Design of image enhancement filters using a novel parallel particle swarm optimisation algorithm

Authors: Geraldine Bessie Amali; Siddhartha Bhuyan; Aju

Addresses: School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT University, Vellore – 632014, Tamil Nadu, India ' Flat No. 101, Meghmallar NRJT Apartments, Guwahati 781004, Assam, India ' School of Computing Science and Engineering, VIT University, Vellore – 632014, India

Abstract: Designing image enhancement filters with arbitrary frequency response subject to stability constraints is a complex multidimensional optimisation problem. In this paper a novel parallel particle swarm optimisation algorithm (PPSO) is proposed and applied to the design of infinite impulse response image filters. The proposed PPSO consists of two phases: in the first phase, the particle swarm in the classical PSO algorithm is divided into subpopulations that evolve on separate cores of a multi-core machine. Best solutions from each sub population are then interchanged between cores. In the second phase a local search using Nelder-Mead simplex is done to refine the solution. Classical PSO is used for global exploration to explore multiple local minima whereas Nelder-Mead helps refine the solution computed by the PSO. The PPSO outperformed other global optimisation algorithms in terms of the mean square error between the ideal and designed filter frequency responses and CPU usage.

Keywords: particle swarm optimisation; PSO; parallel particle swarm optimisation; PPSO; infinite impulse response filter design; genetic algorithm; image enhancement; nonlinear global optimisation; Nelder-Mead simplex search.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAIP.2017.088150

International Journal of Advanced Intelligence Paradigms, 2017 Vol.9 No.5/6, pp.576 - 588

Received: 04 Mar 2015
Accepted: 19 Oct 2015
Published online: 27 Nov 2017 *

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