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MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Group-Induced Vector Spaces
The strength of classifier combination lies either in a suitable averaging over multiple experts/sources or in a beneficial integration of complementary approaches. In this paper...
Manuele Bicego, Elzbieta Pekalska, Robert P. W. Du...
MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Fusion of Support Vector Classifiers for Parallel Gabor Methods Applied to Face Verification
In this paper we present a fusion technique for Support Vector Machine (SVM) scores, obtained after a dimension reduction with Bilateralprojection-based Two-Dimensional Principal C...
Ángel Serrano, Isaac Martín de Diego...
MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Selecting Diversifying Heuristics for Cluster Ensembles
Abstract. Cluster ensembles are deemed to be better than single clustering algorithms for discovering complex or noisy structures in data. Various heuristics for constructing such ...
Stefan Todorov Hadjitodorov, Ludmila I. Kuncheva
MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Applying Data Fusion Methods to Passage Retrieval in QAS
Abstract. This paper investigates the use of diverse data fusion methods to improve the performance of the passage retrieval component in a question answering system. Our results o...
Hans Ulrich Christensen, Daniel Ortiz Arroyo
MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Boosting Lite - Handling Larger Datasets and Slower Base Classifiers
Lawrence O. Hall, Robert E. Banfield, Kevin W. Bow...
MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
An Experimental Study on Rotation Forest Ensembles
Rotation Forest is a recently proposed method for building classifier ensembles using independently trained decision trees. It was found to be more accurate than bagging, AdaBoost...
Ludmila I. Kuncheva, Juan José Rodrí...
MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Serial Fusion of Fingerprint and Face Matchers
The serial fusion of multiple biometric traits for personal identity verification has been poorly investigated so far. However, this approach exhibits some potential advantages, fo...
Gian Luca Marcialis, Fabio Roli
MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Cooperative Coevolutionary Ensemble Learning
Abstract. A new optimization technique is proposed for classifiers fusion — Cooperative Coevolutionary Ensemble Learning (CCEL). It is based on a specific multipopulational evo...
Daniel Kanevskiy, Konstantin Vorontsov
MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Bayesian Analysis of Linear Combiners
Abstract. A new theoretical framework for the analysis of linear combiners is presented in this paper. This framework extends the scope of previous analytical models, and provides ...
Battista Biggio, Giorgio Fumera, Fabio Roli
MCS
2007
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Classifier Combining Rules Under Independence Assumptions
Classifier combining rules are designed for the fusion of the results from the component classifiers in a multiple classifier system. In this paper, we firstly propose a theoretica...
Shoushan Li, Chengqing Zong