Application of majority voting to pattern recognition: An analysis of its behavior and performance

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans.

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 553-568

  Lam, Louisa ^b   Suen, Ching Y ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b THE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Character recognition; Classifier combination; Decision combination; Majority vote problem

Indexed keywords

DECISION THEORY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; DECISION COMBINATION; MAJORITY VOTE PROBLEM;

OPTICAL CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031238275     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3468.618255     Document Type: Article

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