Supervised Probabilistic Classification Based on Gaussian Copulas
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This paper introduces copula functions and the use of the Gaussian copula function to model probabilistic dependencies in supervised classification tasks. A copula is a distribution function with the implicit capacity to model non linear dependencies via concordance measures, such as Kendall’s τ . Hence, this work studies the performance of a simple probabilistic classifier based on the Gaussian copula function. Without additional preprocessing of the source data, a supervised pixel classifier is tested with a 50-images benchmark; the experiments show this simple classifier has an excellent performance.
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