Novel initialization scheme for Fuzzy C-Means algorithm on color image segmentation

► A novel initialization scheme for FCM algorithm, abbreviated as HA, is proposed. ► HA is applied to each component of HSL color space to obtain initial condition for FCM. ► HA has successfully been tested on the public segmentation database images. ► Results show that HA outperforms other state-of-the-art initialization schemes. ► The segmented regions produced are more homogeneous with less classification error.