A New Classifier Simulator for Evaluating Parallel Combination Methods

  • Authors:
  • H. Zouari;L. Heutte;Y. Lecourtier;A. Alimi

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The use of artificial outputs generated by a classifiersimulator has recently emerged as a new trend toprovide an underlying evaluation of classifiercombination methods. In this paper, we propose a newmethod for the artificial generation of classifier outputsbased on additional parameters which provide sufficientdiversity to simulate, for a problem of any number ofclasses and any type of output, any classifierperformance. This is achieved through a two-stepalgorithm which first builds a confusion matrixaccording to desired behaviour and secondly generates,from this confusion matrix, outputs of any specifiedtype. We provide the detailed algorithms andconstraints to respect for the construction of the matrixand the generation of outputs. We illustrate on a smallexample the usefulness of the classifier simulator.