In some classification tasks, all patterns in a field, such as digits in a ZIP-code image, originate from the same, but unknown, source (writer/print style). The class-conditional...
—We formalize the notion of style context, which accounts for the increased accuracy of the field classifiers reported in this journal recently. We argue that style context forms...
A new method for combining dichotomizers like SVMs is proposed for classifying multi-class pattern fields. The novelty lies in the estimation of the styleconstrained posterior fie...