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OCLC number
1032960909
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Author
Maghoumi, Mehran.
Title
Real-Time Automatic Object Classification and Tracking using Genetic Programming and NVIDIA R CUDA TM.
Degree
(M. Sc. Computer Science)--Brock University, 2014.
Publisher
St. Catharines : Brock University, 2014.
Description
1 online resource
Notes
Includes bibliographical references.
Abstract
Genetic Programming (GP) is a widely used methodology for solving various computational problems. GP's problem solving ability is usually hindered by its long execution times. In this thesis, GP is applied toward real-time computer vision. In particular, object classification and tracking using a parallel GP system is discussed. First, a study of suitable GP languages for object classification is presented. Two main GP approaches for visual pattern classification, namely the block-classifiers and the pixel-classifiers, were studied. Results showed that the pixel-classifiers generally performed better. Using these results, a suitable language was selected for the real-time implementation. Synthetic video data was used in the experiments. The goal of the experiments was to evolve a unique classifier for each texture pattern that existed in the video. The experiments revealed that the system was capable of correctly tracking the textures in the video. The performance of the system was on-par with real-time requirements.
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Subject
Object Tracking.
Genetic Programming.
Parallel Computation.
NVIDIA CUDA.