Confidence evaluation for combining diverse classifiers

Proceedings of the International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 760-765

  Hao, Hongwei ^a   Liu, Cheng Lin ^b   Sako, Hiroshi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY BEIJING   (China)

^b HITACHI LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

CLASS PROBABILITIES; CLASSIFICATION PERFORMANCE; CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; COMBINATION RULES; COMBINING CLASSIFIERS; GLOBAL NORMALIZATION; HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION; SCALING FUNCTIONS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 2442622087     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227764     Document Type: Conference Paper

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