A class of upper bounds on probability of error for multihypotheses pattern recognition (Corresp.)

  • Authors:
  • D. Lainiotis

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

A class of upper bounds on the probability of error for the general multihypotheses pattern recognition problem is obtained. In particular, an upper bound in the class is shown to be a linear functional of the pairwise Bhattacharya coefficients. Evaluation of the bounds requires knowledge of a priori probabilities and of the hypothesis-conditional probability density functions. A further bound is obtained that is independent of a priori probabilities. For the case of unknown a priori probabilities and conditional probability densities, an estimate of the latter upper bound is derived using a sequence of classified samples and Kernel functions to estimate the unknown densities.