Linear dependency modeling for classifier fusion and feature combination

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1135-1148

  Ma, Andy Jinhua ^a   Yuen, Pong C ^a,b   Lai, Jian Huang ^c,d  

^a HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b BNU HKBU UNITED INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Laboratory of Quantum Information Technology of Guangdong Province   (China)

Author keywords

classifier level fusion; feature dependency; feature level fusion; Linear dependency modeling; multiple feature fusion

Indexed keywords

FEATURE DEPENDENCY; FEATURE LEVEL FUSION; LEVEL FUSION; LINEAR DEPENDENCY; MULTIPLE FEATURE FUSION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTER VISION;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION);

EID: 84875433320     PISSN: 01628828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2012.198     Document Type: Article

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