Analysis of error-reject trade-off in linearly combined multiple classifiers

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1245-1265

  Fumera, Giorgio ^a   Roli, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Classifier fusion; Error reject trade off; Linear combiners; Multiple classifier systems; Reject option

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY;

DATA SETS; ERROR-REJECT TRADE-OFF; LINEAR COMBINERS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ERROR ANALYSIS;

EID: 2142773984     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2003.12.005     Document Type: Article

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