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A Learning Algorithm of Boosting Kernel Discriminant Analysis for Pattern Recognition

Shinji KITA, Seiichi OZAWA, Satoshi MAEKAWA, Shigeo ABE

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In this paper, we present a new method to enhance classification performance of a multiple classifier system by combining a boosting technique called AdaBoost.M2 and Kernel Discriminant Analysis (KDA). To reduce the dependency between classifier outputs and to speed up the learning, each classifier is trained in a different feature space, which is obtained by applying KDA to a small set of hard-to-classify training samples. The training of the system is conducted based on AdaBoost.M2, and the classifiers are implemented by Radial Basis Function networks. To perform KDA at every boosting round in a realistic time scale, a new kernel selection method based on the class separability measure is proposed. Furthermore, a new criterion of the training convergence is also proposed to acquire good classification performance with fewer boosting rounds. To evaluate the proposed method, several experiments are carried out using standard evaluation datasets. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method can select an optimal kernel parameter more efficiently than the conventional cross-validation method, and that the training of boosting classifiers is terminated with a fairly small number of rounds to attain good classification accuracy. For multi-class classification problems, the proposed method outperforms both Boosting Linear Discriminant Analysis (BLDA) and Radial-Basis Function Network (RBFN) with regard to the classification accuracy. On the other hand, the performance evaluation for 2-class problems shows that the advantage of the proposed BKDA against BLDA and RBFN depends on the datasets.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information Vol.E90-D No.11 pp.1853-1863
Publication Date
2007/11/01
Publicized
Online ISSN
1745-1361
DOI
10.1093/ietisy/e90-d.11.1853
Type of Manuscript
PAPER
Category
Biocybernetics, Neurocomputing

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