In this thesis, a multi-source system for human identification is developed. The system uses three sources: face classifier, height classifier, and color classifier. In the process of developing this system, classifier combination and the integration of classifer outputs over sequences of data points were studied in detail. The method of classifier combination used relies on weighing classifier...

The overall performance of a multi-stage decision-tree classifier has been shown to be better than that of the conventional single-stage classifier with the same number of features because different feature subsets can be selected at different stages. But, the classification time increases due to the complexity of computation. The 1 inear binary tree classifier designed by the method proposed i...

For the operational application of multi-temporal ENVISAT ASAR APS data to rice mapping, a complex Wishart distribution based multi-temporal classifier was evaluated in this paper. The classification accuracy of this classifier was quantitatively compared with commonly used classifiers for optical remote sensing image classification including maximum likelihood classifier and minimum euclidean ...

In this paper we investigate the large-sample behavior of the maximum likelihood estimate (MLE) of the unknown parameter θ for processes following the model dξt = θf(t)ξt dt+ dBt where f : R → R is a continuous function with period, say P > 0, and which is observed through continuous time interval [0, T ] as T → ∞. Here the periodic function f(·) is assumed known. We establish the consistency o...

the performance of many traffic control strategies depends on how much the traffic flow models are accurately calibrated. one of the most applicable traffic flow model in traffic control and management is lwr or metanet model. practically, key parameters in lwr model, including free flow speed and critical density, are parameterized using flow and speed measurements gathered by inductive loop d...

Bayesian Classifiers Learn joint distribution P(C,F) Assign to f the most probable class label argmaxc′∈C P(c′, f̃) This defines a classifier, i.e., a map: (F1× . . .×Fm)→ C Credal Classifiers Learn joint credal set P(C,F) Set of optimal classes (e.g., according to maximality ) {c′ ∈ C |@c′′ ∈ C ,∀P ∈ P : P(c′′|f̃) > P(c′|f̃)} This defines a credal classifier, i.e., (F1× . . .×Fm)→ 2 May return mo...

This paper discusses the use of a secondary likelihood classifier scheme for improving speaker recognition performance. The system models the output likelihoods of a typical Gaussian Mixture Model system across multiple speakers. The Output Probability Distributions (OPD) of the primary classifiers contain information on inter-speaker relationships, and are modelled by secondary classifiers to ...