Learning ranks with neural networks

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 2492, Issue , 1995, Pages 446-464

  Al Ghoneim, Khaled ^a   Vijaya Kumar, B V K ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Classification figure of merit; Differential learning; Neural networks; Ranking figure of merit; Ranks

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION ALGORITHMS; COST FUNCTIONS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; NEURAL NETWORKS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DIFFERENTIAL LEARNING; FIGURE OF MERITS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS; NEURAL NETWORKS (NNS); PERFORMANCE MEASURE; RANKING PERFORMANCE; RANKS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 0039195954     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: 1996756X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.205150     Document Type: Conference Paper

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