Multiple Classifier Systems: 6th International Workshop, MCS 2005, Seaside, CA, USA, June 13-15, 2005, Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783540263067 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 432 str.

Nikunj C. Oza;Robi Polikar;Josef Kittler

Opis

Constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, MCS 2005. This book contains papers that are organized in topical sections on boosting, combination methods, performance analysis, and applications. They exemplify the advances in the theory and applications of multiple classifier systems.

Spis treści

Future Directions.- Semi-supervised Multiple Classifier Systems: Background and Research Directions.- Boosting.- Boosting GMM and Its Two Applications.- Boosting Soft-Margin SVM with Feature Selection for Pedestrian Detection.- Observations on Boosting Feature Selection.- Boosting Multiple Classifiers Constructed by Hybrid Discriminant Analysis.- Combination Methods.- Decoding Rules for Error Correcting Output Code Ensembles.- A Probability Model for Combining Ranks.- EER of Fixed and Trainable Fusion Classifiers: A Theoretical Study with Application to Biometric Authentication Tasks.- Mixture of Gaussian Processes for Combining Multiple Modalities.- Dynamic Classifier Integration Method.- Recursive ECOC for Microarray Data Classification.- Using Dempster-Shafer Theory in MCF Systems to Reject Samples.- Multiple Classifier Fusion Performance in Networked Stochastic Vector Quantisers.- On Deriving the Second-Stage Training Set for Trainable Combiners.- Using Independence Assumption to Improve Multimodal Biometric Fusion.- Design Methods.- Half-Against-Half Multi-class Support Vector Machines.- Combining Feature Subsets in Feature Selection.- ACE: Adaptive Classifiers-Ensemble System for Concept-Drifting Environments.- Using Decision Tree Models and Diversity Measures in the Selection of Ensemble Classification Models.- Ensembles of Classifiers from Spatially Disjoint Data.- Optimising Two-Stage Recognition Systems.- Design of Multiple Classifier Systems for Time Series Data.- Ensemble Learning with Biased Classifiers: The Triskel Algorithm.- Cluster-Based Cumulative Ensembles.- Ensemble of SVMs for Incremental Learning.- Performance Analysis.- Design of a New Classifier Simulator.- Evaluation of Diversity Measures for Binary Classifier Ensembles.- Which Is the Best Multiclass SVM Method? An Empirical Study.- Over-Fitting in Ensembles of Neural Network Classifiers Within ECOC Frameworks.- Between Two Extremes: Examining Decompositions of the Ensemble Objective Function.- Data Partitioning Evaluation Measures for Classifier Ensembles.- Dynamics of Variance Reduction in Bagging and Other Techniques Based on Randomisation.- Ensemble Confidence Estimates Posterior Probability.- Applications.- Using Domain Knowledge in the Random Subspace Method: Application to the Classification of Biomedical Spectra.- An Abnormal ECG Beat Detection Approach for Long-Term Monitoring of Heart Patients Based on Hybrid Kernel Machine Ensemble.- Speaker Verification Using Adapted User-Dependent Multilevel Fusion.- Multi-modal Person Recognition for Vehicular Applications.- Using an Ensemble of Classifiers to Audit a Production Classifier.- Analysis and Modelling of Diversity Contribution to Ensemble-Based Texture Recognition Performance.- Combining Audio-Based and Video-Based Shot Classification Systems for News Videos Segmentation.- Designing Multiple Classifier Systems for Face Recognition.- Exploiting Class Hierarchies for Knowledge Transfer in Hyperspectral Data.