Exploiting reliability for dynamic selection of classifiers by means of genetic algorithms

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

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 671-675

  De Stefano, Claudio ^a   Cioppa, Antonio Della ^b   Marcelli, Angelo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTER RECOGNITION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; RELIABILITY;

BREAK MECHANISM; COMBINING RULES; DYNAMIC SELECTION; GLOBAL OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; HANDWRITTEN DIGIT RECOGNITION; MULTI-EXPERT SYSTEMS; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY MEASURE;

ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33646390899     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.2003.1227747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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