Mars terrain image classification using Cartesian Genetic Programming

J Leitner, Simon Harding, Alexander Förster, Jurgen Schmidhuber

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Abstract

Automatically classifying terrain such as rocks, sand and gravel from images is a challenging machine vision problem. In addition to human designed approaches, a great deal of progress has been made using machine learning techniques to perform classification from images. In this work, we demonstrate the first known use of Cartesian Genetic Programming (CGP) to this problem.

Our CGPfor Image Processing (CGP-IP) system quickly learns classifiers and detectors for certain terrain types. The learned program outperforms currently used techniques for classification tasks performed on a panorama image collected by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication11th International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space (i-SAIRAS), Turin, Italy
Pages1-8
Number of pages8
Publication statusPublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space 2012 - Turin, Italy
Duration: 4 Sept 20126 Sept 2012
Conference number: 11th

Conference

ConferenceInternational Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Automation in Space 2012
Abbreviated titlei-SAIRAS 2012
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityTurin
Period4/09/126/09/12

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