Diversity in multiple classifier ensembles based on binary feature quantisation with application to face recognition

Applied Soft Computing Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 437-445

  Sirlantzis, K ^a   Hoque, S ^a   Fairhurst, M C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bit plane decomposition; Diversity; Face recognition; Multiple classifier systems

Indexed keywords

FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; IMAGE FUSION; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PIXELS; VECTOR QUANTIZATION;

BIT-PLANE DECOMPOSITION; CLASSIFIER FUSION; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIER SYSTEMS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 34548504799     PISSN: 15684946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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