A Survey on Evolutionary Computation for Computer Vision and Image Analysis: Past, Present, and Future Trends

Computer vision (CV) is a big and important field in artificial intelligence covering a wide range of applications. Image analysis is a major task in CV aiming to extract, analyse and understand the visual content of images. However, imagerelated tasks are very challenging due to many factors, e.g., high variations across images, high dimensionality, domain expertise requirement, and image distortions. Evolutionary computation (EC) approaches have been widely used for image analysis with significant achievement. However, there is no comprehensive survey of existing EC approaches to image analysis. To fill this gap, this paper provides a comprehensive survey covering all essential EC approaches to important image analysis tasks including edge detection, image segmentation, image feature analysis, image classification, object detection, and others. This survey aims to provide a better understanding of evolutionary computer vision (ECV) by discussing the contributions of different approaches and exploring how and why EC is used for CV and image analysis. The applications, challenges, issues, and trends associated to this research field are also discussed and summarised to provide further guidelines and opportunities for future research

A Review of Feature Selection and Classification Approaches for Heart Disease Prediction

Cardiovascular disease has been the number one illness to cause death in the world for years. As information technology develops, many researchers have conducted studies on a computer-assisted diagnosis for heart disease. Predicting heart disease using a computer-assisted system can reduce time and costs. Feature selection can be used to choose the most relevant variables for heart disease. It includes filter, wrapper, embedded, and hybrid. The filter method excels in computation speed. The wrapper and embedded methods consider feature dependencies and interact with classifiers. The hybrid method takes advantage of several methods. Classification is a data mining technique to predict heart disease. It includes traditional machine learning, ensemble learning, hybrid, and deep learning. Traditional machine learning uses a specific algorithm. The ensemble learning combines the predictions of multiple classifiers to improve the performance of a single classifier. The hybrid approach combines some techniques and takes advantage of each method. Deep learning does not require a predetermined feature engineering. This research provides an overview of feature selection and classification methods for the prediction of heart disease in the last ten years. Thus, it can be used as a reference in choosing a method for heart disease prediction for future research

Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization and Machine Learning

Evolutionary Computation (EC) has emerged as a powerful field of Artificial Intelligence, inspired by nature's mechanisms of gradual development. However, EC approaches often face challenges such as stagnation, diversity loss, computational complexity, population initialization, and premature convergence. To overcome these limitations, researchers have integrated learning algorithms with evolutionary techniques. This integration harnesses the valuable data generated by EC algorithms during iterative searches, providing insights into the search space and population dynamics. Similarly, the relationship between evolutionary algorithms and Machine Learning (ML) is reciprocal, as EC methods offer exceptional opportunities for optimizing complex ML tasks characterized by noisy, inaccurate, and dynamic objective functions. These hybrid techniques, known as Evolutionary Machine Learning (EML), have been applied at various stages of the ML process. EC techniques play a vital role in tasks such as data balancing, feature selection, and model training optimization. Moreover, ML tasks often require dynamic optimization, for which Evolutionary Dynamic Optimization (EDO) is valuable. This paper presents the first comprehensive exploration of reciprocal integration between EDO and ML. The study aims to stimulate interest in the evolutionary learning community and inspire innovative contributions in this domain

On Investigations of Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques for MIMO Detection

This paper reviews in detail the various types of multiple input multiple output (MIMO) detector algorithms. The current MIMO detectors are not suitable for massive MIMO (mMIMO) scenarios where there are a large number of antennas. Their performance degrades with the increase in number of antennas in the MIMO system. For combatting the issues, machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) based detection algorithms are being researched and developed. An extensive survey of these detectors is provided in this paper, alongwith their advantages and challenges. The issues discussed have to be resolved before using them for final deployment

Computational intelligence based complex adaptive system-of-systems architecture evolution strategy

The dynamic planning for a system-of-systems (SoS) is a challenging endeavor. Large scale organizations and operations constantly face challenges to incorporate new systems and upgrade existing systems over a period of time under threats, constrained budget and uncertainty. It is therefore necessary for the program managers to be able to look at the future scenarios and critically assess the impact of technology and stakeholder changes. Managers and engineers are always looking for options that signify affordable acquisition selections and lessen the cycle time for early acquisition and new technology addition. This research helps in analyzing sequential decisions in an evolving SoS architecture based on the wave model through three key features namely; meta-architecture generation, architecture assessment and architecture implementation. Meta-architectures are generated using evolutionary algorithms and assessed using type II fuzzy nets. The approach can accommodate diverse stakeholder views and convert them to key performance parameters (KPP) and use them for architecture assessment. On the other hand, it is not possible to implement such architecture without persuading the systems to participate into the meta-architecture. To address this issue a negotiation model is proposed which helps the SoS manger to adapt his strategy based on system owners behavior. This work helps in capturing the varied differences in the resources required by systems to prepare for participation. The viewpoints of multiple stakeholders are aggregated to assess the overall mission effectiveness of the overarching objective. An SAR SoS example problem illustrates application of the method. Also a dynamic programing approach can be used for generating meta-architectures based on the wave model. --Abstract, page iii

Bayesian Quality-Diversity approaches for constrained optimization problems with mixed continuous, discrete and categorical variables

Complex engineering design problems, such as those involved in aerospace, civil, or energy engineering, require the use of numerically costly simulation codes in order to predict the behavior and performance of the system to be designed. To perform the design of the systems, these codes are often embedded into an optimization process to provide the best design while satisfying the design constraints. Recently, new approaches, called Quality-Diversity, have been proposed in order to enhance the exploration of the design space and to provide a set of optimal diversified solutions with respect to some feature functions. These functions are interesting to assess trade-offs. Furthermore, complex engineering design problems often involve mixed continuous, discrete, and categorical design variables allowing to take into account technological choices in the optimization problem. In this paper, a new Quality-Diversity methodology based on mixed continuous, discrete and categorical Bayesian optimization strategy is proposed. This approach allows to reduce the computational cost with respect to classical Quality - Diversity approaches while dealing with discrete choices and constraints. The performance of the proposed method is assessed on a benchmark of analytical problems as well as on an industrial design optimization problem dealing with aerospace systems

A Hybrid Machine Learning Technique For Feature Optimization In Object-Based Classification of Debris-Covered Glaciers

Object-based features like spectral, topographic, and textural are supportive to determine debris-covered glacier classes. The original feature space includes relevant and irrelevant features. The inclusion of all these features increases the complexity and renders the classifier’s performance. Therefore, feature space optimization is requisite for the classification process. Previous studies have shown a rigorous exercise in manually selecting the best combination of features to define the target class and proven to be a time consuming task. The present study proposed a hybrid feature selection technique to automate the selection of the best suitable features. This study aimed to reduce the classifier’s complexity and enhance the performance of the classification model. Relief-F and Pearson Correlation filter-based feature selection methods ranked features according to the relevance and filtered out irrelevant or less important features based on the defined condition. Later, the hybrid model selected the common features to get an optimal feature set. The proposed hybrid model was tested on Landsat 8 images of debris-covered glaciers in Central Karakoram Range and validated with present glacier inventories. The results showed that the classification accuracy of the proposed hybrid feature selection model with a Decision Tree classifier is 99.82%, which is better than the classification results obtained using other mapping techniques. In addition, the hybrid feature selection technique has sped up the process of classification by reducing the number of features by 77% without compromising the classification accuracy