Multiple Instance Choquet Integral Classifier Fusion and Regression for Remote Sensing Applications

Abstract

In classifier (or regression) fusion, the aim is to combine the outputs of several algorithms to boost overall performance. Standard supervised fusion algorithms often require accurate and precise training labels. However, accurate labels may be difficult to obtain in many remote sensing applications. This paper proposes novel classification and regression fusion models that can be trained given ambiguously and imprecisely labeled training data in which the training labels are associated with sets of data points (i.e., “bags”) instead of individual data points (i.e., “instances”) following a multiple-instance learning framework. Experiments were conducted based on the proposed algorithms on both synthetic data and applications such as target detection and crop yield prediction given remote sensing data. The proposed algorithms show effective classification and regression performance.

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X. Du and A. Zare, “Multiple Instance Choquet Integral Classifier Fusion and Regression for Remote Sensing Applications,” in  IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., vol. 57, no. 5, pp. 2741-2753, May 2019.

BibTeX:
@ARTICLE{du2018multiple, 
author={X. Du and A. Zare}, 
journal={IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing}, 
title={Multiple Instance Choquet Integral Classifier Fusion and Regression for Remote Sensing Applications}, 
year={2019}, 
month={May}, 
volume={57}, 
number={5}, 
pages={2741-2753}, 
doi={10.1109/TGRS.2018.2876687}}