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This paper presents a method for combining classifiers that uses k-nearest localized templates. The localized templates are estimated from a training set using C-means clustering algorithm, and matched to the decision profile of a new incoming sample by a similarity measure. The sample is assigned to the class which is most frequently represented among the k most similar templates. The appropriate value of k is determined according to the characteristics of the given data set. Experimental results on real and artificial data sets show that the proposed method performs better than the conventional fusion methods.
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Min, JK., Cho, SB. (2007). Multiple Classifier Fusion Using k-Nearest Localized Templates. In: Yin, H., Tino, P., Corchado, E., Byrne, W., Yao, X. (eds) Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning - IDEAL 2007. IDEAL 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4881. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77226-2_46
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