title = "Genetic programming for edge detection based on figure
of merit",
booktitle = "GECCO Companion '12: Proceedings of the fourteenth
international conference on Genetic and evolutionary
computation conference companion",
abstract = "The figure of merit (FOM) is popular for testing an
edge detector's performance, but there are very few
reports using FOM as an evaluation method in the
learning stage of supervised learning methods. In this
study, FOM is investigated as a fitness function in
Genetic Programming (GP) for edge detection. Since FOM
has some drawbacks from type II errors, new fitness
functions are developed based on FOM in order to
address these weaknesses. Experimental results show
that FOM can be used to evolve GP edge detectors that
perform better than the Sobel detector, and the new
fitness functions clearly improve the ability of GP
edge detectors to find edge points and give a single
response on edges, compared with the fitness function
using FOM.",
notes = "Also known as \cite{2331003} Distributed at
GECCO-2012.