In this paper, we describe the development of a rapidly reconfigurable system in which the users’ ta

In this paper, we describe the development of a rapidly reconfigurable system in which the users’ tacit knowledge and requirements are elicited via a process of Interactive Evolution, finding the image processing parameters to achieve the required goals without any need for specialised knowledge of the machine vision system. We show that the resulting segmentation can be quickly and easily evolved from scratch, and achieves detection rates comparable to those of a hand-tuned system on a hot-rolled steel defect recognition problem.