Combination of multiple classifiers using local accuracy estimates

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 405-410

  Woods, Kevin ^a,b   Philip Kegelmeyer, W ^a,b   Bowyer, Kevin ^a,b  

^a University of South Florida   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Classifier fusion; Combination of classifiers; Dynamic classifier selection; Local classifier accuracy; ROC analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ESTIMATION; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

COMBINATION OF MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS (CMC);

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031121318     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/34.588027     Document Type: Article

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