A Memetic Algorithm for Matching Spatial Configurations with the Histograms of Forces
Andrew R. Buck, James M. Keller, Marjorie Skubic
IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 588-604, Aug. 2013
IEEE-TEC, Spatial Relations, Histogram of Forces
Abstract
In this paper, we present an approach for modeling and comparing small sets of 2D objects based on their spatial relationships. This situation can arise in the conflation of a hand or machine drafted map to a satellite image, or in the correspondence problem of matching two images taken under different viewing conditions. We focus here on the specific problem of matching a sketched map containing several 2D objects to hand-segmented satellite imagery. We define a similarity measure between the spatial configurations of two object sets which uses attributed relational graphs to represent scene information. Objects are represented as graph nodes and edges are defined by the histograms of forces between object pairs. We develop a memetic algorithm based on a (μ+λ) evolution strategy to solve this scene matching problem with three domain-specific local search operators which are compared experimentally.
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