Handwritten digit recognition by combined classifiers

Abstract

summary:Classifiers can be combined to reduce classification errors. We did experiments on a data set consisting of different sets of features of handwritten digits. Different types of classifiers were trained on these feature sets. The performances of these classifiers and combination rules were tested. The best results were acquired with the mean, median and product combination rules. The product was best for combining linear classifiers, the median for $k$-NN classifiers. Training a classifier on all features did not result in less errors.