Soft combination of neural classifiers: a comparative studyShow others and affiliations
1999 (English)In: Pattern Recognition Letters, ISSN 0167-8655, E-ISSN 1872-7344, Vol. 20, no 4, p. 429-444Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This paper presents four schemes for soft fusion of the outputs of multiple classifiers. In the first three approaches, the weights assigned to the classifiers or groups of them are data dependent. The first approach involves the calculation of fuzzy integrals. The second scheme performs weighted averaging with data-dependent weights. The third approach performs linear combination of the outputs of classifiers via the BADD defuzzification strategy. In the last scheme, the outputs of multiple classifiers are combined using Zimmermann's compensatory operator. An empirical evaluation using widely accessible data sets substantiates the validity of the approaches with data-dependent weights, compared to various existing combination schemes of multiple classifiers.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1999. Vol. 20, no 4, p. 429-444
Keywords [en]
Pattern recognition, Calculations, Fuzzy sets, Integral equations, Neural networks, Classification, Decision fusion, Fuzzy integral
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-3542DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(99)00012-4ISI: 000080013500007Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-0033117452OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hh-3542DiVA, id: diva2:286804
2010-01-152009-12-012025-10-01Bibliographically approved