abstract = "Traditional machine vision assumes that the vision
system recovers a complete, labeled description of the
world [Marr]. Recently, several researchers have
criticized this model and proposed an alternative model
which considers perception as a distributed collection
of task-specific, task-driven visual routines
[Aloimonos, Ullman]. Some of these researchers have
argued that in natural living systems these visual
routines are the product of natural selection
[ramachandran]. So far, researchers have hand-coded
task-specific visual routines for actual
implementations (e.g. [Chapman]). In this paper we
propose an alternative approach in which visual
routines for simple tasks are evolved using an
artificial evolution approach. We present results from
a series of runs on actual camera images, in which
simple routines were evolved using Genetic Programming
techniques [Koza]. The results obtained are promising:
the evolved routines are able to correctly classify up
to 93% of the images, which is better than the best
algorithm we were able to write by hand.",