Resample and combine: An approach to improving uncertainty representation in evidential pattern classification

Information Fusion

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 75-85

  Francois J ^a,b   Grandvalet, Y ^a   Denoeux T ^a   Roger, J M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

Author keywords

Bagging; Bootstrap; Character recognition; Decision fusion; Dempster Shafer theory; Evidence theory; K nearest neighbor rule; Supervised pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; STATISTICS;

DECISION FUSION;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 0038476304     PISSN: 15662535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-2535(03)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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