Combining classifiers based on minimization of a Bayes error rate

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

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages 398-401

  Kang, Hee Joong ^a   Lee, Seong Whan ^a  

^a Korea University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ERRORS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

APPROXIMATION SCHEME; BAYES ERROR RATE; COMBINING CLASSIFIERS; CONDITIONAL ENTROPY; DECISION VARIABLES; HANDWRITTEN NUMERAL; HIGHER-ORDER; MULTIPLE CLASSIFIERS;

CHARACTER RECOGNITION;

EID: 37949009754     PISSN: 15205363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDAR.1999.791808     Document Type: Conference Paper

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