Master Thesis - Department of Computer Science
Master Thesis - Department of Computer Science
Master Thesis - Department of Computer Science
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space. If the training data uniformly sample the underlying class distribution and<br />
represent the class properly, LDA and nonparametric LDA can enhance the class<br />
separability and hence improve base classifier performance when applied on classi-<br />
fier output space. This may not be applicable for a classifier which gives response<br />
vectors not representing class distribution and nonuniformly sampling the distribu-<br />
tion. In this case, application <strong>of</strong> LDA and nonparametric LDA even deteriorate the<br />
performance <strong>of</strong> base classifier. We have verified the performance enhancement on a<br />
validation response vector set, and then used it as a basis for the application <strong>of</strong> LDA<br />
and nonparametric LDA on response vectors for test samples. After this prepro-<br />
cessing step, we have combined classifiers using sum rule. The experimental results<br />
show that our proposed method performs better than sum, product, max, min rule,<br />
Decision Template (DT) and Dempster-Shafer (DS) combination.<br />
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