Fast video analysis by genetic programming

Genetic programming has been applied to various types of vision tasks. This paper extends the use of this powerful problem solving method to a more complex but more common domain, video analysis. We present the methodology as well as the experiments on two video analysis tasks: segmenting texture regions and detecting moving objects. The advantages of GP in this domain can be shown by this study. Firstly GP methods are less dependent on knowledge from domain experts. One methodology is suitable for both tasks. Secondly GP can generate fast video frame analyzers which are highly desirable or even critical in real time vision applications.