Evolving Local Descriptor Operators through Genetic Programming

  • Authors:
  • Cynthia B. Perez;Gustavo Olague

  • Affiliations:
  • Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, México B.C. 22860;Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Ensenada, México B.C. 22860

  • Venue:
  • EvoWorkshops '09 Proceedings of the EvoWorkshops 2009 on Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoCOMNET, EvoENVIRONMENT, EvoFIN, EvoGAMES, EvoHOT, EvoIASP, EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoNUM, EvoSTOC, EvoTRANSLOG
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper presents a new methodology based on Genetic Programming that aims to create novel mathematical expressions that could improve local descriptors algorithms. We introduce the RDGP-ILLUM descriptor operator that was learned with two image pairs considering rotation, scale and illumination changes during the training stage. Such descriptor operator has a similar performance to our previous RDGP descriptor proposed in [1], while outperforming the RDGP descriptor in object recognition application. A set of experimental results have been used to test our evolved descriptor against three state-of-the-art local descriptors. We conclude that genetic programming is able to synthesize image operators that outperform significantly previous human-made designs.