Poplar optimization algorithm: A new meta-heuristic optimization technique for numerical optimization and image segmentation

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Highlights：

• The POA algorithm mimics the sexual and asexual propagation mechanism of poplar.

• The performance of POA is tested on two test suites with different features.

• POA is used to find optimal thresholds for image segmentation.

• The results indicate that POA is competitive and has its superiority in some cases.

摘要

•The POA algorithm mimics the sexual and asexual propagation mechanism of poplar.•The performance of POA is tested on two test suites with different features.•POA is used to find optimal thresholds for image segmentation.•The results indicate that POA is competitive and has its superiority in some cases.

论文关键词：Poplar optimization algorithm,Sexual propagation,Asexual reproduction,Optimization methods,Benchmarks functions,Image segmentation

论文评审过程：Received 15 June 2021, Revised 21 January 2022, Accepted 28 March 2022, Available online 31 March 2022, Version of Record 4 April 2022.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.117118