Pixel Statistics and False Alarm Area in Genetic Programming for Object Detection

This paper describes a domain independent approach to the use of genetic programming for object detection problems. Rather than using raw pixels or high level domain specific features, this approach uses domain independent statistical features as terminals in genetic programming. Besides position invariant statistics such as mean and standard deviation, this approach also uses position dependent pixel statistics such as moments and local region statistics as terminals. Based on an existing fitness function which uses linear combination of detection rate and false alarm rate, we introduce a new measure called “false alarm area” to the fitness function. In addition to the standard arithmetic operators, this approach also uses a conditional operator if in the function set. This approach is tested on two object detection problems. The experiments suggest that position dependent pixel statistics computed from local (central) regions and nonlinear condition functions are effective to...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: EVOW
• Authors: Mengjie Zhang, Peter Andreae, Mark Pritchard
• Keywords: Artificial Intelligence, EVOW 2003, False Alarm, Object Detection Problems, Position Dependent Pixel