Stabilizing classifiers for very small sample sizes

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 2, Issue , 1996, Pages 891-896

  Skurichina, Marina ^a,b   Duin, Robert P W ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE MATRIX;

A-STABILITY; FISHER DISCRIMINANT; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; LINEAR CLASSIFIERS; NEAREST MEAN CLASSIFIERS; PSEUDO-INVERSION; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0000282893     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.1996.547204     Document Type: Conference Paper

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