Table of contents : Introduction....Pages 1-9 Feature Synthesis for Object Detection....Pages 11-78 Mdl-Based Efficient Genetic Programming for Object Detection....Pages 79-119 Feature Selection for Object Detection....Pages 121-164 Evolutionary Feature Synthesis for Object Recognition....Pages 165-199 Linear Genetic Programming for Object Recognition....Pages 201-232 Applications of Linear Genetic Programming for Object Recognition....Pages 233-276 Summary and Future Work....Pages 277-281