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A new model for evolving Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) is proposed in this paper. The model is based on the Multi Expression Programming (MEP) technique. Each MEP chromosome encodes an evolutionary pattern that is repeatedly used for…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Mihai Oltean

The use of evolutionary methods in design and art is increasing in diversity and popularity. Approaches to using these methods for creative production typically focus either on optimisation or exploration. In this paper we introduce an…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Camilo Cruz Gambardella , Jon McCormack

Learning invariant representations from images is one of the hardest challenges facing computer vision. Spatial pooling is widely used to create invariance to spatial shifting, but it is restricted to convolutional models. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-03-19 Sainbayar Sukhbaatar , Takaki Makino , Kazuyuki Aihara

Designing neural networks for object recognition requires considerable architecture engineering. As a remedy, neuro-evolutionary network architecture search, which automatically searches for optimal network architectures using evolutionary…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Cristiano Saltori , Subhankar Roy , Nicu Sebe , Giovanni Iacca

Text-to-image models are powerful tools for image creation. However, the generation process is akin to a dice roll and makes it difficult to achieve a single image that captures everything a user wants. In this paper, we propose a framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Sean J. Liu , Nupur Kumari , Ariel Shamir , Jun-Yan Zhu

A stochastic configuration interaction method based on evolutionary algorithm is designed as an affordable approximation to full configuration interaction (FCI). The algorithm comprises of initiation, propagation and termination steps,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-18 Rahul Chakraborty , Debashree Ghosh

The spectrum of masses from a lattice QCD simulation may be found by fitting exponential functions to correlators of operators possessing the quantum numbers of the particles of interest. The ability of evolutionary algorithms to find…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2008-11-26 Georg M. von Hippel , Randy Lewis , Robert G. Petry

Humans are continuously exposed to a stream of visual data with a natural temporal structure. However, most successful computer vision algorithms work at image level, completely discarding the precious information carried by motion. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Alessandro Betti , Marco Gori , Stefano Melacci

An evolutionary algorithm (EA) is developed as an alternative to the EM algorithm for parameter estimation in model-based clustering. This EA facilitates a different search of the fitness landscape, i.e., the likelihood surface, utilizing…

Computation · Statistics 2020-06-09 Sharon M. McNicholas , Paul D. McNicholas , Daniel A. Ashlock

We present a novel approach of color transfer between images by exploring their high-level semantic information. First, we set up a database which consists of the collection of downloaded images from the internet, which are segmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Asad Khan , Muhammad Ahmad , Yudong Guo , Ligang Liu

The population-based optimization algorithms have provided promising results in feature selection problems. However, the main challenges are high time complexity. Moreover, the interaction between features is another big challenge in FS…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Motahare Namakin , Modjtaba Rouhani , Mostafa Sabzekar

Creative image generation has emerged as a compelling area of research, driven by the need to produce novel and high-quality images that expand the boundaries of imagination. In this work, we propose a novel framework for creative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Kunpeng Song , Ahmed Elgammal

Feature selection is one of the most challenging issues in machine learning, especially while working with high dimensional data. In this paper, we address the problem of feature selection and propose a new approach called Evolving Fast and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Uzay Cetin , Yunus Emre Gundogmus

Evolution by natural selection, which is one of the most compelling themes of modern science, brought forth evolutionary algorithms and evolutionary computation, applying mechanisms of evolution in nature to various problems solved by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Eugene Eberbach

Image compositing is a method used to generate realistic yet fake imagery by inserting contents from one image to another. Previous work in compositing has focused on improving appearance compatibility of a user selected foreground segment…

Graphics · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Fuwen Tan , Crispin Bernier , Benjamin Cohen , Vicente Ordonez , Connelly Barnes

We discuss a new optimization strategy, which considerably improves the effectivity of evolutionary algorithms applied to a certain class of optimization problems. The basic principle is to solve first a simpler related problem, which is…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Volkhard Buchholtz , Thorsten Poeschel

Copying an element from a photo and pasting it into a painting is a challenging task. Applying photo compositing techniques in this context yields subpar results that look like a collage --- and existing painterly stylization algorithms,…

Graphics · Computer Science 2018-06-28 Fujun Luan , Sylvain Paris , Eli Shechtman , Kavita Bala

Creativity, or the ability to produce new useful ideas, is commonly associated to the human being; but there are many other examples in nature where this phenomenon can be observed. Inspired by this fact, in engineering and particularly in…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-01-26 David Daniel Albarracín Molina

This paper presents a novel and effective technique for extracting multiple ellipses from an image. The approach employs an evolutionary algorithm to mimic the way animals behave collectively assuming the overall detection process as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-05-21 Erik Cuevas , Maurici Gonzalez , Daniel Zaldivar , Marco Perez

The main power of artificial intelligence is not in modeling what we already know, but in creating solutions that are new. Such solutions exist in extremely large, high-dimensional, and complex search spaces. Population-based search…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Risto Miikkulainen