To fuse or not to fuse: fuser versus best classifier

Nageswara S. V. Rao

doi:10.1117/12.303685

20 March 1998 To fuse or not to fuse: fuser versus best classifier

Nageswara S. V. Rao

Proceedings Volume 3376, Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications II; (1998) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.303685
Event: Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls, 1998, Orlando, FL, United States

Abstract

A sample from a class defined on a finite-dimensional Euclidean space and distributed according to an unknown distribution is given. We are given a set of classifiers each of which chooses a hypothesis with least misclassification error from a family of hypotheses. We address the question of choosing the classifier with the best performance guarantee versus combining the classifiers using a fuser. We first describe a fusion method based on isolation property such that the performance guarantee of the fused system is at least as good as the best of the classifiers. For a more restricted case of deterministic classes, we present a method based on error set estimation such that the performance guarantee of fusing all classifiers is at least as good as that of fusing any subset of classifiers.

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Nageswara S. V. Rao "To fuse or not to fuse: fuser versus best classifier", Proc. SPIE 3376, Sensor Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications II, (20 March 1998); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.303685

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