abstract = "This contribution presents a novel approach for the
automatic generation of a low-level feature extractor
that is useful in higher-level computer vision tasks.
Specifically, our work centers on the well-known
computer vision problem of interest point detection. We
pose interest point detection as an optimization
problem, and are able to apply Genetic Programming to
generate operators that exhibit human-competitive
performance when compared with state-of-the-art
designs. This work uses the repeatability rate that is
applied as a benchmark metric in computer vision
literature as part of the GP fitness function, together
with a measure of the entropy related with the point
distribution across the image. This two measures
promote geometric stability and global separability
under several types of image transformations. This
paper introduces a Genetic Programming implementation
that was able to discover a modified version of the DET
operator [Beaudet, 1978], that shows a surprisingly
high-level of performance. In this work emphasis was
given to the balance between genetic programming and
domain knowledge expertise to obtain results that are
equal or better than human created solutions.",
notes = "GECCO-2006 A joint meeting of the fifteenth
international conference on genetic algorithms
(ICGA-2006) and the eleventh annual genetic programming
conference (GP-2006).