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PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS
Volume 29, Issue 10, Pages 1565-1570Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2008.03.010
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multi-class classification; outlier detection; rejection
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in many classification problems objects should be rejected when the confidence in their classification is too low. An example is a face recognition problem where the faces of a selected group of people have to be classified, but where all other faces and non-faces should be rejected. These problems are typically solved by estimating the class densities and assigning an object to the class with the highest posterior probability. The total probability density is thresholded to detect the outliers. Unfortunately, this procedure does not easily allow for class-dependent thresholds, or for class models that are not based on probability densities but on distances. In this paper we propose a new heuristic to combine any type of one-class models for solving the multi-class classification problem with outlier rejection. It normalizes the average model output per class, instead of the more common non-linear transformation of the distances. It creates the possibility to adjust the rejection threshold per class, and also to combine class models that are not (all) based on probability densities and to add class models without affecting the boundaries of existing models. Experiments show that for several classification problems using class-specific models significantly improves the performance. (C) 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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