Title : 
Increasing Object Recognition Rate using Reinforced Segmentation
         
        
            Author : 
Sahba, Farshid ; Tizhoosh, Hamid R. ; Salama, Magdy M. A.
         
        
            Author_Institution : 
Syst. Design Eng., Waterloo Univ., Ont., Canada
         
        
        
        
        
            Abstract : 
In this paper a new approach to object extraction and recognition based on reinforcement learning is presented. We use this novel idea as a method to optimally segment the image and increase the recognition rate. The success rate is compared with a classical approach. Preliminary results demonstrate increase in recognition rate.
         
        
            Keywords : 
feature extraction; image segmentation; learning (artificial intelligence); object recognition; image segmentation; object extraction; object recognition; reinforcement learning; Data mining; Design engineering; Image recognition; Image segmentation; Laboratories; Learning; Machine intelligence; Object detection; Object recognition; Pattern analysis; Image segmentation; Learning systems; Object detection;
         
        
        
        
            Conference_Titel : 
Image Processing, 2006 IEEE International Conference on
         
        
            Conference_Location : 
Atlanta, GA
         
        
        
            Print_ISBN : 
1-4244-0480-0
         
        
        
            DOI : 
10.1109/ICIP.2006.312518