- author = "Illya Bakurov and Marco Buzzelli and Mauro Castelli and Raimondo Schettini and Leonardo Vanneschi",
- title = "Genetic Programming for Structural Similarity Design at Multiple Spatial Scales",
- booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2022 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference",
- year = "2022",
- editor = "Alma Rahat and Jonathan Fieldsend and Markus Wagner and Sara Tari and Nelishia Pillay and Irene Moser and Aldeida Aleti and Ales Zamuda and Ahmed Kheiri and Erik Hemberg and Christopher Cleghorn and Chao-li Sun and Georgios Yannakakis and Nicolas Bredeche and Gabriela Ochoa and Bilel Derbel and Gisele L. Pappa and Sebastian Risi and Laetitia Jourdan and Hiroyuki Sato and Petr Posik and Ofer Shir and Renato Tinos and John Woodward and Malcolm Heywood and Elizabeth Wanner and Leonardo Trujillo and Domagoj Jakobovic and Risto Miikkulainen and Bing Xue and Aneta Neumann and Richard Allmendinger and Inmaculada Medina-Bulo and Slim Bechikh and Andrew M. Sutton and Pietro Simone Oliveto",
- pages = "911--919",
- address = "Boston, USA",
- series = "GECCO '22",
- month = "9-13 " # jul,
- organisation = "SIGEVO",
- publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
- publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, multi-scale context, image quality assessment, image processing, spatially-varying kernels, structural similarity, multi-scale structural similarity index, multi-scale processing, evolutionary computation, dilated convolutions",
- isbn13 = "978-1-4503-9237-2",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.1145/3512290.3528783",
- size = "9 pages",
- abstract = "The growing production of digital content and its dissemination across the worldwide web require eficient and precise management. In this context, image quality assessment measures (IQAMs) play a pivotal role in guiding the development of numerous image processing systems for compression, enhancement, and restoration. The structural similarity index (SSIM) is one of the most common IQAMs for estimating the similarity between a pristine reference image and its corrupted variant. The multi-scale SSIM is one of its most popular variants that allows assessing image quality at multiple spatial scales. This paper proposes a two-stage genetic programming (GP) approach to evolve novel multi-scale IQAMs, that are simultaneously more effective and efficient. We use GP to perform feature selection in the first stage, while the second stage generates the final solutions. The experimental results show that the proposed approach outperforms the existing MS-SSIM. A comprehensive analysis of the feature selection indicates that, for extracting multi-scale similarities, spatially-varying convolutions are more effective than dilated convolutions. Moreover, we provide evidence that the IQAMs learned for one database can be successfully transferred to previously unseen databases. We conclude the paper by presenting a set of evolved multi-scale IQAMs and providing their interpretation.",
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notes = "'We use EDDA 9, \cite{vanneschi:2017:CEC} to seed the
GP population' Demes. Hoist mutation.
Fitness uses Spearman correlation. TID2013, VDID2014, GPOL Python \cite{Bakurov:2021:AS}
GECCO-2022 A Recombination of the 31st International Conference on Genetic Algorithms (ICGA) and the 27th Annual Genetic Programming Conference (GP)",
