Evolutionary Gabor Filter Optimization with Application to Vehicle Detection

  • Authors:
  • Zehang Sun;George Bebis;Ronald Miller

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDM '03 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Data Mining
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Despite the considerable amount of research work on the applicationof Gabor filters in pattern classification, their design and selectionhave been mostly done on a trial and error basis. Existing techniques areeither only suitable for a small number of filters or less problem-oriented.A systematic and general evolutionary Gabor filter optimization (EGFO)approach that yields a more optimal, problem-specific, set of filters is proposedin this study. The EGFO approach unifies filter design with filter selectionby integrating Genetic Algorithms (GAs) with an incremental clusteringapproach. Specifically, filter design is performed using GAs, a globaloptimization approach that encodes the parameters of the Gabor filters ina chromosome and uses genetic operators to optimize them. Filter selectionis performed by grouping together filters having similar characteristics(i.e., similar parameters) using incremental clustering in the parameterspace. Each group of filters is represented by a single filter whose parameterscorrespond to the average parameters of the filters in the group. Thisstep eliminates redundant filters, leading to a compact, optimized set of filters.The average filters are evaluated using an application-oriented fitnesscriterion based on Support Vector Machines (SVMs). To demonstrate theeffectiveness of the proposed framework, we have considered the challengingproblem of vehicle detection from gray-scale images. Our experimentalresults illustrate that the set of Gabor filters, specifically optimized for theproblem of vehicle detection, yield better performance than using traditionalfilter banks.