15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'00) - Volume 2
Is Independence Good For Combining Classifiers?
Barcelona, Spain
September 03-September 08
ISBN: 0-7695-0750-6
Independence between individual classifiers is typically viewed as an asset in classifier fusion. We study the limits on the majority vote accuracy when combining dependent classifiers. Q statistics are used to measure the dependence between classifiers. We show that dependent classifiers could offer a dramatic improvement over the individual accuracy. However, the relationship between dependency and accuracy of the pool is ambivalent. A synthetic experiment demonstrates the intuitive result that; in general, negative dependence is preferable.
Citation:
L.I. Kuncheva, C.J. Whitaker, C.A. Shipp, R.P.W. Duin, "Is Independence Good For Combining Classifiers?," icpr, vol. 2, pp.2168, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR'00) - Volume 2, 2000