genetic algorithm

i am working on image segmentation using genetic algorithm,can anyone tell how to start with is there any reference papers for this

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[Sean de Wolski]

Formulate your segmentation goal as an objective (cost) function to be minimized. Come up with any contraints or bounds you may have. Feed this into the genetic algorithm solver: ga() or gamultiobj().

[Pat]

Sean thanks a lot ,but please can u tell is there any reference paper how to start with,because am new to this GA

[Sean de Wolski]

doc ga

for the MATLAB Global Optimization Toolbox function documentation. As far as for using it with Image Segmentation - I have no idea. You will have to define a function that performs the segmentation and measures some error (that you somehow define). GA will then minimize this. I have no experience with Genetic Algorithms for this purpose. They are super-cool for pretty much everything though (especially for curing the wife's insomnia).