On combining classifiers using sum and product rules

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2001

Authors

Luís Alexandre (Author) Other; Aurélio Joaquim de Castro Campilho (Author) FEUP; Mohamed Kamel (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Pattern Recognition Letters

Vol. 22

Pages: 1283-1289

ISSN: 0167-8655

Publisher: Elsevier

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Engineering > Electrical engineering

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-000-T70

DOI: 10.1016/s0167-8655(01)00073-3

Abstract (EN): This paper presents a comparative study of the performance of arithmetic and geometric means as rules to combine multiple classifiers. For problems with two classes., we prove that these combination rules are equivalent when using two classifiers and the sum of the estimates of the a posteriori probabilities is equal to one. We also prove that the case of a two class problem and a combination of two classifiers is the only one where such equivalence occurs. We present experiments illustrating the equivalence of the rules under the above mentioned assumptions.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 7