Adaptive Hierarchial Classification with Limited Training Data

Abstract

This research focused on the development of a approach for classification that is robust with respect to training data that are limited both in quantity and spatial extent. Many difficult classification problems involve a high dimensional input and output space (candidate labels). Due to the "curse of dimensionality", it is necessary to reduce the size of the input space when there is only a limited quantity of training data available. While a significant amount of research has focused on transforming the input space into a reduced feature space that accurately discriminates between the classes in a fixed output space, traditional approaches fail to capitalize on the domain knowledge and flexibility gained by transforming the feature space and the output space simultaneously. A new approach is proposed that utilizes domain knowledge, which is automatically discovered from the data, to combat the "smail sample size" problem.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2002
Accession Number
ADA403215

Entities

People

  • Joseph T. Morgan

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Birds
  • Classification
  • Data Sets
  • Detectors
  • Electromagnetic Spectra
  • Feature Extraction
  • Feature Selection
  • Image Processing
  • Information Science
  • Machine Learning
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Probability Density Functions
  • Probability Distributions
  • Remote Sensing
  • Test Sets
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Space