Multiple HONG network fusion by fuzzy integral

Describes the Hierarchical Overlapped Neural Gas (HONG) architecture, which is built on the basis of the neural gas algorithm. The proposed architecture generated multiple classifications for every sample data presented, and these are registered as the confidence values of each network. A method-of-evidence fusion technique based on the fuzzy integral was used to combine the individual classifications produced by the proposed architecture. Finally, three classifiers based on three different feature sets were trained, and then combined using the fuzzy integral. An excellent recognition rate of 99.48% was consequently obtained for the NIST SD3 database.

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