Workshop Program

Tuesday 20
 
17.00 - 19.00  Registration

Wednesday 21 
 
08.00 - 08.45  Registration
08.45 - 09.00  Opening
09.00 - 10.00  Invited Talk

Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning
T.G. Dietterich (Oregon State University, USA)
10.00 - 10.20  Coffee Break
10.20 - 11.50 

Session 1: Theoretical Issues
Chairman: T.K. Ho

Classifier Combinations: Implementations and Theoretical Issues
L.Lam (Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong)

A Mathematically Rigorous Foundation for Supervised Learning
E. Kleinberg (The State University of New York, USA)

Complexity of Classification Problems and Comparative Advantages of Combined Classifiers
T.K. Ho (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA)

Priorities for future research on theoretical foundations of multiple classifier systems
T.K. Ho (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, USA)

11.50 -12.50  Invited Talk

Experiments with Classifier Combining Rules
R.P.W. Duin, D.M.J. Tax (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
12.50 - 13.05  Aims and Organisation of the Final Round Table

F. Roli and J. Kittler
 13.05 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.30  Invited Talk

The "Test and Select" Approach to Ensemble Combination
A.J.C. Sharkey, N.E. Sharkey, U. Gerecke, G.O. Chandroth (University of Sheffield, UK)
15.30 - 15.50  Coffee Break
15.50 - 17.30 

Session 2: Multiple Classifier Fusion
Chairmen: L. Lam and D. Partridge

Effectiveness of Error Correcting Output Codes in Multiclass Learning Problems
F. Masulli, G. Valentini (Istituto Nazionale per la Fisica della Materia, and Università di Genova, Italy)

Combining Fisher Linear Discriminants for Dissimilarity Representation
E. Pekalska, M. Skurichina, R.P.W. Duin (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

A Learning Method of Feature Selection for Rough Classification
K. Takahashi, A. Sato (NEC Corporation, Japan)

Analysis of a Fusion Method for Combining Marginal Classifiers
M.D. Happel, P. Bock (The George Washington University, USA)

18.00  Welcome Cocktail

Thursday 22 
 
08.30 - 10.10 

Session 2: Multiple Classifier Fusion
Chairmen: L. Lam and D. Partridge


A Hybrid Projection Based and Radial Basis Function Architecture
S. Cohen, N. Intrator (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)

Combining Multiple Classifiers in Probabilistic Neural Networks
J. Grim*, J. Kittler**, P. Pudil*, P. Somol* (*Institute of Information Theory and Automation, Czech Republic; **University of Surrey, UK)

Supervised Classifier Combination Through Generalized Additive Multi-model
C. Conversano*, R. Siciliano*, F. Mola** (*Università di Napoli "Federico II", Italy; **Università di Cagliari, Italy)

Dynamic Classifier Selection
G. Giacinto, F. Roli (Università di Cagliari, Italy)

10.10 - 10.30  Coffee Break
10.30 - 11.30  Invited Talk

A Survey of Sequential Combination of Word Recognizers in Handwritten Phrase Recognition at CEDAR
V. Govindaraju, S. Srihari (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)
11.30 - 13.10 

Session 3: Bagging and Boosting
Chairman: N. Intrator

Boosting in Linear Discriminant Analysis
M. Skurichina, R.P.W. Duin (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Different Ways of Weakening Decision Trees and Their Impact on Classification Accuracy of DT Combination
P. Latinne, O. Debeir, C. Decaestecker (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Applying Boosting to Similarity Literals for Time Series Classification
J.J. Rodríguez Diez, C.J. Alonso González (Universidad de Valladolid, Spain)

Boosting of Tree-Based Classifiers for Predicitve Risk Modeling in GIS
C. Furlanello, S. Merler (ITC-irst, Italy)

13.10 - 14.30  Lunch
14.30 - 15.30  Invited Talk

Multiple Classifier Combination Methodologies for Different Output Levels
C.Y. Suen*, L. Lam*,** (*Concordia University, Canada; **Hong Kong Institute of Education, Hong Kong)
15.30 - 16.15  Coffee Break + Working Groups Time
 16.15 - 17.55

Session 4: Design of Multiple Classifier Systems
Chairman: P. Pudil

A New Evaluation Method for Expert Combination in Multi-expert System Designing
S. Impedovo, A. Salzo (Università degli studi di Bari, Italy)

Diversity Between Neural Networks and Decision Trees for Building Multiple Classifier Systems
W. Wang, P. Jones, D. Partridge (University of Exeter, UK)

Self-Organizing Decomposition of Functions in the Context of a Unified Framework for Multiple Classifier Systems
N. Griffith*, D. Partridge** (*University of Limerick, Ireland; **University of Exeter, UK)

Classifier Instability and Partitioning
T. Windeatt (University of Surrey, UK)

20.30  Social Dinner

Friday 23 
 
08.30 - 10.10 

Session 5: Remote-Sensing Data Analysis
Chairman: J.A. Benediktsson

A Hierarchical Multiclassifier System for Hyperspectral Data Analysis
S. Kumar, J. Ghosh, M. Crawford (The University of Texas at Austin, USA)

Consensus Based Classification of Multisource Remote Sensing Data
J.A. Benediktsson, J.R. Sveinsson (Univesity of Iceland, Iceland)

Combining Parametric and Nonparametric Classifiers for an Unsupervised Updating of Land-Cover Maps
L. Bruzzone*, R. Cossu*, D.F. Prieto** (*Università di Trento, Italy; **Università di Genova, Italy)

A Multiple Self-Organizing Map Scheme for Remote Sensing Classification
W. Wan, D. Fraser (The University of New South Wales, Australia)

10.10 - 10.30  Coffee Break
10.30 - 12.10 

Session 6: Document Analysis
Chairman: H. Bunke

Use of Lexicon Density in Evaluating Word Recognizers
P. Slavík, V. Govindaraju (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

A Multi-expert System for Dynamic Signature Verification
V. Di Lecce*, G. Dimauro**, A. Guerriero*, S. Impedovo**, G. Pirlo**, A. Salzo** (*Politecnico di Bari, Italy; **Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy)

A Cascaded Multiple Expert System for Verification
L. P. Cordella*, P. Foggia*, C. Sansone* F. Tortorella**, M. Vento* (*Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy; **Università degli Studi di Cassino, Italy)

Architecture for Classifier Combination Using Entropy Measures
K. Ianakiev, V. Govindaraju (State University of New York at Buffalo, USA)

12.10 - 13.10  Invited Talk

The Information Society Technologies Research Programme
P.Corsi (European Commission, Directorate General Information Society)
13.10 - 14.15  Lunch
14.15 - 16.20 

Session 7: Miscellaneous Applications
Chairman: C. Furlanello

Combining Fingerprint Classifiers
R. Cappelli, D. Maio, D. Maltoni (Università di Bologna, Italy)

Statistical Sensor Calibration for Fusion of Different Classifiers in a Biometric Person Recognition Framework
B. Fröba, C. Rothe, C. Küblbeck (Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits, Germany)

A Modular Neuro-fuzzy Network for Musical Instruments Classification
A.M. Fanelli, G. Castellano, C.A. Buscicchio (Università degli Studi di Bari, Italy)

Classifier Combination for Grammar-Guided Sentence Recognition
X. Jiang, K. Yu, H. Bunke (University of Bern, Switzerland)

Shape Matching and Extraction by an Array of Figure-and-Ground Classifiers
I. Kumazawa (Tokio Institute of Technology, Japan)

16.20 - 16.40  Coffee Break
16.40 - 17.30  Round Table: Priorities for Future Research
Chairmen: T.K. Ho, J. Kittler and F. Roli
17.30  Closing