The combining classifier: To train or not to train?

Proceedings - International Conference on Pattern Recognition

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 765-770

  Duin, Robert P W ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); IMAGE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

DECISION RULES; DISSIMILARITY; TRAINED CLASSIFIERS; TRAINING SETS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

BASE CLASSIFIERS; COMBINING CLASSIFIERS; COMBINING RULES; FINAL DECISION; OUTPUT VALUES; TRAINING SETS;

EID: 33751584745     PISSN: 10514651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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