Experimental evaluation of expert fusion strategies

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 11-13, 1999, Pages 1361-1369

  Alkoot, F M ^a   Kittler, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

CLASSIFIER COMBINATION MODELS; POSTERIOR PROBABILITY;

PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033220742     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(99)00107-5     Document Type: Article

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