Research Article

Automatic Circle Detection on Images Based on an Evolutionary Algorithm That Reduces the Number of Function Evaluations

Figure 3

The fitness estimation strategy. (a) According to the rule  1, the individual has a high probability to be evaluated , since it is located closer than a distance with respect to the nearest element whose quality factor corresponds to the best value. (b) According to the rule  1, the individual has a high probability to be estimated (assigning it the same fitness value as ( )), since it is located closer than a distance with respect to the nearest element whose quality factor corresponds to the worst value. (c) According to the rule  2, the individual is evaluated, as there is no close reference in its neighborhood.
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