Evaluation of the Information-Theoretic Construction of Multiple Classifier Systems

  • Authors:
  • Hee-Joong Kang;David Doermann

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ICDAR '03 Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

The performance of multiple classifier systems varieswith the performance of component classifiers as well asthe method of combination. In this paper, information-theoreticmethods are proposed for constructing multipleclassifier systems, provided that the number of componentclassifiers is constrained in advance. These proposed methodsare applied to a classifier pool and examine the possibleclassifier sets by the selected information-theoretic criteria.One of them is then selected as the candidate and isevaluated together with the other multiple classifier systemson the recognition of unconstrained handwritten numeralsfrom Concordia University and the University of California,Irvine. Experimental results support the approach.