Improving Cascading Classifiers with Particle Swarm Optimization

Authors:
Luiz S. Oliveira;Alceu S. Jr. Britto;Robert Sabourin
Affiliations:
Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Brazil;Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Brazil;Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Parana, Brazil
Venue:
ICDAR '05 Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition
Year:
2005

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Abstract

This paper addresses the issue of class-related reject thresholds for cascading classifier systems. It has been demonstrated in the literature that class-related reject thresholds provide an error-reject trade-off better than a single global threshold. In this work we argue that the error-reject trade-off yielded by class-related reject thresholds can be further improved if a proper algorithm is used to find the thresholds. In light of this, we propose using a recently developed optimization algorithm called Particle Swarm Optimization. It has been proved to be very effective in solving real valued global optimization problems. In order to show the benefits of such an algorithm, we have applied it to optimize the thresholds of a cascading classifier system devoted to recognize handwritten digits.