— Imitation is a powerful mechanism for transferring knowledge from an instructor to a na¨ıve observer, one that is deeply contingent on a state of shared attention between the...
Aaron P. Shon, David B. Grimes, Chris Baker, Matth...
This paper presents a genetic programming based approach for optimizing the feature extraction step of a handwritten character recognizer. This recognizer uses a simple multilayer ...
Various methods for ensemble selection and classifier combination have been designed to optimize the results of ensembles of classifiers. Genetic algorithm (GA) which uses the div...
Albert Hung-Ren Ko, Robert Sabourin, Alceu de Souz...
In the context of large databases, data preparation takes a greater importance : instances and explanatory attributes have to be carefully selected. In supervised learning, instanc...
The chapter describes visual classification by a hierarchy of semantic fragments. In fragment-based classification, objects within a class are represented by common sub-structures ...