Support vector machine pairwise classifiers with error reduction for image classification

  • Authors:
  • King-Shy Goh;Edward Chang;Kwang-Ting Cheng

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Santa Barbara;Univ. of California, Santa Barbara;Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

  • Venue:
  • MULTIMEDIA '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM workshops on Multimedia: multimedia information retrieval
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

In this paper we study how Support Vector Machines (SVMs) can be applied to image classification. To enhance classification accuracy, we normalize SVM pairwise classification results. From empirical study on a fifteen-category diversified image set, we show that combining pairwise SVMs and error reduction is an effective approach from image classification. This study is a critical step for our on-going effort on the development of a comprehensive approach, closely adapted to SVMs, to image classification.