Boosting GMM and its two applications

  • Authors:
  • Fei Wang;Changshui Zhang;Naijiang Lu

  • Affiliations:
  • State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China;State Key Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Systems, Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R.China;Shanghai Cogent Biometrics Identification Technology Co. Ltd., China

  • Venue:
  • MCS'05 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Multiple Classifier Systems
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Boosting is an effecient method to improve the classification performance. Recent theoretical work has shown that the boosting technique can be viewed as a gradient descent search for a good fit in function space. Several authors have applied such viewpoint to solve the density estimation problems. In this paper we generalize such framework to a specific density model – Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and propose our boosting GMM algorithm. We will illustrate the applications of our algorithm to cluster ensemble and short-term traffic flow forecasting problems. Experimental results are presented showing the effectiveness of our approach.