An experimental evaluation of selective mutation

AJ Offutt, G Rothermel, C Zapf - Proceedings of 1993 15th …, 1993 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mutation testing is a technique for unit-testing software that, although powerful, is
computationally expensive. The principal expense of mutation is that many variants of the …

From mathematical morphology to machine learning of image operators

J Barrera, RF Hashimoto, NST Hirata… - São Paulo Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Morphological image operators are a class of non-linear image mappings studied in
Mathematical Morphology. Many significant theoretical results regarding the characterization …

Morphological erosions and openings: fast algorithms based on anchors

M Van Droogenbroeck, MJ Buckley - Journal of Mathematical Imaging and …, 2005 - Springer
Several efficient algorithms for computing erosions and openings have been proposed
recently. They improve on van Herk's algorithm in terms of number of comparisons for large …

Automatic programming of binary morphological machines by design of statistically optimal operators in the context of computational learning theory

J Barrera, ER Dougherty… - Journal of Electronic …, 1997 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Representation of set operators by artificial neural networks and design of such operators by
inference of network parameters is a popular technique in binary image analysis. We …

A fast Branch-and-Bound algorithm for U-curve feature selection

E Atashpaz-Gargari, MS Reis, UM Braga-Neto… - Pattern Recognition, 2018 - Elsevier
We introduce a fast Branch-and-Bound algorithm for optimal feature selection based on a U-
curve assumption for the cost function. The U-curve assumption, which is based on the …

Automatic programming of morphological machines by PAC learning

J Barrera, R Terada, R Hirata Jr… - Fundamenta …, 2000 - content.iospress.com
An important aspect of mathematical morphology is the description of complete lattice
operators by a formal language, the Morphological Language (ML), whose vocabulary is …

[图书][B] Enhancement and restoration of digital documents: Statistical design of nonlinear algorithms

RP Loce, ER Dougherty - 1997 - books.google.com
This book addresses digital document enhancement and restoration in these settings.
Topics covered include the language and working definitions of the field, current industry …

Discrete morphological neural networks

D Marcondes, J Barrera - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.00588, 2023 - arxiv.org
A classical approach to designing binary image operators is Mathematical Morphology
(MM). We propose the Discrete Morphological Neural Networks (DMNN) for binary image …

Multilevel training of binary morphological operators

NST Hirata - IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis and …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The design of binary morphological operators that are translation-invariant and locally
defined by a finite neighborhood window corresponds to the problem of designing Boolean …

U-curve: A branch-and-bound optimization algorithm for U-shaped cost functions on Boolean lattices applied to the feature selection problem

M Ris, J Barrera, DC Martins Jr - Pattern Recognition, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper presents the formulation of a combinatorial optimization problem with the
following characteristics:(i) the search space is the power set of a finite set structured as a …