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Evolving Image Processing Operations for an Evolvable Hardware Environment

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Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware (ICES 2003)

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This paper describes the application of genetic algorithms to evolve new spatial masks for non-linear image processing operations, which are ultimately to be implemented on evolvable hardware. The development environment was custom-built to allow full control over the evolution process and enable the importance of the evolution strategy (including the representation scheme, parameters and fitness function) to be investigated and understood. Results of applying the evolved mask to threshold real-world images are provided and are shown to be an improvement on conventional image processing operations. The envisaged infrastructure for the evolvable hardware is also considered, and the implementation of the image processing operations discussed.

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  1. Department of Electronics, The University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, UK

    Stephen L. Smith, David P. Crouch & Andy M. Tyrrell

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  1. The Department of Electronics, The University of York, YO10 5DD, Heslington, York, United Kingdom

    AAndy M. Tyrrell

  2. Department of Computer and Information Science, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Sem Sælands Vei, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Pauline C. Haddow

  3. Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, P.O. Box 1080, 0316, Blindern, Oslo, Norway

    Jim Torresen

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Smith, S.L., Crouch, D.P., Tyrrell, A.M. (2003). Evolving Image Processing Operations for an Evolvable Hardware Environment. In: Tyrrell, A.M., Haddow, P.C., Torresen, J. (eds) Evolvable Systems: From Biology to Hardware. ICES 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2606. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36553-2_30

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