Optimum-Path Forest in the classification of defects in Bovine Leather

Abstract

In this paper, the Optimum-Path Forest (OPF) classifier is applied in the classification of defects in cowhide, a problem of great evaluation complexity. The OPF classifier reduces a pattern classification problem to the problem of partitioning the vertices of a graph induced by its data set. The results revealed a competent performance compared to traditional classifiers, such as Support Vector Machines (SVM), Artificial Neural Networks-Perceptron Multilayer (MLP), Decision Trees (J48) and k-Nearest Neighbor (kNN).