Using genetic algorithm to 'fool' HMAX object recognition model

Autor: Hasan, Maysun Mazhar
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
Předmět:
Druh dokumentu: Diplomová práce
Popis: Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2012.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 48-49).
HMAX ("Hierarchical Model and X") system is among the best machine vision approaches developed today, in many object recognition tasks [1]. HMAX decomposes an image into features which are passed to a classifier. These features each capture information about a small section of the input image but might not have information about the overall structure of the image if there is not a significant number of overlapping features. Therefore it can produce a false-positive if two images from two different classes having sufficiently similar features profile but completely different structures. To demonstrate the problem this thesis aimed to show that the features of a given subject are not unique because they lack geometric information. Genetic algorithm (GA) was used to create an image with a similar feature profile as a subject but which clearly does not belong to the subject. Using GA, random pixel images converged to an image whose feature profile has a small Euclidian distance from a target profile. This generated GA image does not resemble the target image but has a similar profile which successfully fooled the classifier in most cases. This implies that the "binding problem" is a major issue in a HMAX model of the size tested. Furthermore, methods of improving the system were investigated.
by Maysun Mazhar Hasan.
M.Eng.
Databáze: Networked Digital Library of Theses & Dissertations