Motion detection in complex environments by genetic programming

  • Authors:
  • Brian Pinto;Andy Song

  • Affiliations:
  • RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia;RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference Companion on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference: Late Breaking Papers
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Detecting motions is an important aspect of machine vision. However real world vision tasks often contain interfering motion information which is not of interest. To tackle this difficult task, we adapted Genetic Programming into this domain. The GP-based methodology presented in this paper does not require the implementation of existing motion detection algorithms. The evolved programs can detect genuine moving objects such as cars and boats, while ignoring background movements such as waving trees, rippling water surface and even pedestrians. These programs provide reliable performance under different lighting conditions, either indoors and outdoors. Furthermore no preprocessing of video input is required which is usually mandatory in conventional vision approaches.