APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CREATING AN IMAGE RECOGNIZING PROGRAM HAVING HIGH POSITIONAL RECOGNITION ACCURACY

摘要

An apparatus stores a plurality of partial programs, which are constituent elements of an image recognizing program that detects a position of a template image on an input image. The apparatus creates a plurality of individual programs each being a combination of at least two of the plurality of partial programs, and calculates a similarity map that associates similarity with the template image with each pixel of the input image by using each of the plurality of individual programs. The apparatus calculates fitness for each of the plurality of individual programs, based on a distribution of the similarity map, selects an individual program for which the fitness is equal to or greater than a prescribed threshold, from among the plurality of individual programs, and outputs the selected individual program as the image recognizing program.