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Record W4416416446 · doi:10.3897/jucs.129768

Genetic-based square jigsaw puzzle solver using the combined color+texture compatibility criterion

2025· article· en· W4416416446 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJUCS - Journal of Universal Computer Science · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicImage Processing and 3D Reconstruction
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsJigsawColoredDiscriminatorSolverSquare (algebra)Pattern recognition (psychology)

Abstract

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When reconstructing jigsaw puzzles, the state-of-the-art algorithms struggle to distinguish between identically colored pieces that belong to different objects. This limitation significantly impacts the accuracy of puzzle solvers, especially in complex images with repetitive colors or textures. To address this issue, we propose a new GA-based square jigsaw puzzle solver. A combined color and texture discriminator is incorporated into the proposed solver to prevent pieces that have the same color but come from distinct objects from being joined together incorrectly. Color and texture features are extracted separately using the sum of square distances and Gabor filter. To evaluate the performance of the proposed solver, we used a dataset consisting 66 images: 20 puzzles with 432 pieces from the MIT collection, 20 puzzles with 540 pieces, and 20 puzzles with 805 pieces from the McGill collection, and 3 puzzles with 2360 pieces, and 3 puzzles with 3300 pieces from the Pomeranz collection. For the direct, neighbor, and largest component comparisons, the proposed method’s accuracy is 92.91%, 96.66%, and 90.83%, respectively. The proposed method demonstrates an improvement of 11.9%, and 3.65% in accuracy based on direct and neighbor comparison criteria, on the database images when compared to current state-of-the-art GA-based square jigsaw puzzle solver.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.821
Threshold uncertainty score0.818

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.271
Teacher spread0.254 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it