A wide selection of standard statistical pattern classification algorithms can be applied as trainable fusion rules while designing neural network ensembles. A focus of the present two-part paper is finite sample effects: the complexity of base classifiers and fusion rules; the type of outputs provided by experts to the fusion rule; non-linearity of the fusion rule; degradation of experts and t...

Identifying fault categories, especially for compound faults, is a challenging task in mechanical fault diagnosis. For this task, this paper proposes a novel intelligent method based on dual-tree complex wavelet packet transform (DTCWPT) and multiple classifier fusion. In this method, in order to effectively extract underlying fault characteristic information, DTCWPT, which enjoys such attracti...

multiple people detection and tracking is a challenging task in real-world crowded scenes. in this paper, we have presented an online multiple people tracking-by-detection approach with a single camera. we have detected objects with deformable part models and a visual background extractor. in the tracking phase we have used a combination of support vector machine (svm) person-specific classifie...

In the pattern recognition literature, Huang and Suen introduced the “multinomial” rule for fusion of multiple classifiers under the name of Behavior Knowledge Space (BKS) method [1]. This classifier fusion method can provide very good performances if large and representative data sets are available. Otherwise over fitting is likely to occur, and the generalization error quickly increases. In s...

Decision-in decision-out fusion architecture can be used to fuse the outputs of multiple classifiers from different diagnostic sources. In this paper, Dempster-Shafer Theory (DST) has been used to fuse classification results of breast cancer data from two different sources: gene-expression patterns in peripheral blood cells and Fine-Needle Aspirate Cytology (FNAc) data. Classification of indivi...

We perform an extensive study of the performance of different classification approaches on twenty-five datasets (fourteen image datasets and eleven UCI data mining datasets). The aim is to find General-Purpose (GP) heterogeneous ensembles (requiring little to no parameter tuning) that perform competitively across multiple datasets. The state-of-the-art classifiers examined in this study include...

In this paper we present two methods to create multiple classifier systems based on an initial transformation of the original features to the binary domain and subsequent decompositions (quantisation). Both methods are generally applicable although in this work they are applied to grey-scale pixel values of facial images which form the original feature domain. We further investigate the issue o...

How to combine the outputs from base classifiers is a key issue in ensemble learning. This paper presents a dynamic classifier ensemble method termed as DCE-CC. It dynamically selects a subset of classifiers for test samples according to classification confidence. The weights of base classifiers are learned by optimization of margin distribution on the training set, and the ordered aggregation ...

This paper presents an ensemble system combining the output of multiple SVM classifiers to native language identification (NLI). The system was submitted to the NLI Shared Task 2017 fusion track which featured students essays and spoken responses in form of audio transcriptions and iVectors by non-native English speakers of eleven native languages. Our system competed in the challenge under the...

Gesture recognition is becoming a more and more popular research topic since it can be applied to lots of areas, such as vision-based interface, communication and interaction. In this paper, experiments are implemented to verify the potential to improve vision based gesture recognition performance using multiple classifiers. The proposed approach implements gesture recognition which combines de...