Images of fuzzy sets under fuzzy relations have been investigated mainly in two contexts: On the one hand, mostly under the term “full image” [5], they can be regarded as very general tools for fuzzy inference, leading to the so-called “compositional rule of inference” [1, 5]. On the other hand, under the term “extensional hull”, the image of a fuzzy set under a fuzzy equivalence relation yield...

Designing classifiers may follow different goals. Which goal to prefer among others depends on the given cost situation and the class distribution. For example, a classifier designed for best accuracy in terms of misclassifications may fail when the cost of misclassification of one class is much higher than that of the other. This paper presents a decision-theoretic extension to make fuzzy rule...

INTRODUCTION "Change-glasses" approach in pattern recognition [1] relies on the assumption that there are subspaces of the initial feature space where the chosen classification rule can be replaced by another, more competent, one (see, e.g. [2]). This will hopefully lead to a better classification accuracy in comparison with that obtained through one rule only. This classification strategy bear...

1BAbstract This study implemented and applied a binary ensemble classifier for identification of grazed vegetation communities on Macquarie Island from very high resolution Quickbird imagery. Rabbit grazing has severely affected Macquarie’s unique sub-Antarctic vegetation communities. The aim of this study was to identify the grazed areas from Quickbird imagery to map their spatial extent. Seve...

image classification is an issue which utilizes image processing, pattern recognition and classification methods. automatic medical image classification is a progressive area in image classification and it expected to be more developed in the future. due to this fact that automatic diagnosis which use intelligent methods such as medical image classification can assist pathologists by providing ...

Support vector machines (SVMs) proved to be highly efficient computational tools in various classification tasks. However, SVMs are nonlinear classifiers and the knowledge learned by an SVM is encoded in a long list of parameter values, making it difficult to comprehend what the SVM is actually computing. We show that certain types of SVMs are mathematically equivalent to a specific fuzzy–rule ...

This paper proposes an Enhanced Particle Swarm Optimization (EPSO) for extracting optimal rule set and tuning membership function for fuzzy logic based classifier model. The standard PSO is more sensitive to premature convergence due to lack of diversity in the swarm and can easily get trapped into local minima when it is used for data classification. To overcome this issue, BLX-α crossover and...

In the recent years, pixel-wise classification of hyperspectral images aroused many developments, and the literature now provides various classifiers for numerous applications. In this chapter, we present a generic framework where the redundant or complementary results provided by multiple classifiers can actually be aggregated. Taking advantage from the specificities of each classifier, the de...