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Publisher: Journals Gateway
Artificial Life (1994) 1 (4): 373–389.
Published: 01 July 1994
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Traditional machine vision assumes that the vision system recovers a complete, labeled description of the world [10]. Recently, several researchers have criticized this model and proposed an alternative model that considers perception as a distributed collection of task-specific, context-driven visual routines [1, 12]. Some of these researchers have argued that in natural living systems these visual routines are the product of natural selection [11]. So far, researchers have hand-coded task-specific visual routines for actual implementations (e.g., [3]). In this article we propose an alternative approach in which visual routines for simple tasks are created using an artificial evolution approach. We present results from a series of runs on actual camera images, in which simple routines were evolved using genetic programming techniques [7]. The results obtained are promising: The evolved routines are able to process correctly up to 93% of the test images, which is better than any algorithm we were able to write by hand.