Dealing with class skew in context recognition

Proceedings - International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Stäger, Mathias ^a   Lukowicz, Paul ^b   Tröster, Gerhard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Institute for Computer Systems and Networks   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CURVES (ROAD); ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; LEARNING SYSTEMS;

(SPM) CLASSES; AREA UNDER THE CURVE (AUC); CASE STUDIES; CLASS SKEW; CONTEXT RECOGNITION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING SYSTEMS; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (PE); REAL-LIFE APPLICATIONS; RECEIVER OPERATOR CHARACTERISTIC (ROC) CURVES; RELIABLE PERFORMANCE;

FACE RECOGNITION;

EID: 44949151560     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICDCSW.2006.36     Document Type: Conference Paper

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