Refined classifier combination using belief functions

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Quost, Benjamin ^a   Masson, Marie Hélène ^b   Denœux, Thierry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TECHNOLOGIE DE COMPIÈGNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

Author keywords

Classification; Classifier combination; Dempster Shafer theory; Information fusion; Theory of belief functions

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFIERS; DATA FUSION; FORMAL LOGIC; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; INFORMATION FUSION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; REFINING; SENSOR DATA FUSION;

BELIEF FUNCTIONS; CLASSIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACIES; CLASSIFIER COMBINATION; CLASSIFIER COMBINATIONS; COMBINATION RULES; DEMPSTER'S RULES; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; ONE RULES; REAL DATA SETS; REAL DATUMS; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATIONS; THEORY OF BELIEF FUNCTIONS;

FUSION REACTIONS;

EID: 56749142864     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICIF.2008.4632289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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