Adaptive fusion and co-operative training for classifier ensembles

Pattern Recognition

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1781-1794

  Wanas, Nayer M ^a   Dara, Rozita A ^a   Kamel, Mohamed S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Co operative training; Combining architecture; Decision fusion; Feature based; Multiple classifier systems; Pattern classification

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; DECISION THEORY; FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

CO-OPERATIVE TRAINING; COMBINING ARCHITECTURE; DECISION FUSION; FEATURE-BASED; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 33744983327     PISSN: 00313203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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