Experimental results on the construction of multiple classifiers recognizing handwritten numerals

Only a few studies have been conducted on how to select multiple classifiers from the pool of available classifiers for showing good performance. The selection problem of classifiers on how to select or how many to select still remains an important issue. In this paper, provided that the number of selected classifiers is constrained in advance, a number of selection criteria are proposed and applied to the construction of multiple classifiers. All the sets of classifiers are examined by the selection criteria under the constraint of the number of selected classifiers, and then some of those sets are selected as the candidates of multiple classifier systems. The multiple classifier system candidates were evaluated by the experiments recognizing UCI handwritten numerals.