• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.785-804
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• 2017

Due to various factors such as postures, facial expressions and illuminations, face recognition by videos often suffer from poor recognition accuracy and generalization ability, since the within-class scatter might even be higher than the between-class one. Herein we address this problem by proposing a hierarchical cascaded classifier for video face recognition, which is a multi-layer algorithm and accounts for the misclassified samples plus their similar samples. Specifically, it can be decomposed into single classifier construction and multi-layer classifier design stages. In single classifier construction stage, classifier is created by clustering and the number of classes is computed by analyzing distance tree. In multi-layer classifier design stage, the next layer is created for the misclassified samples and similar ones, then cascaded to a hierarchical classifier. The experiments on the database collected by ourselves show that the recognition accuracy of the proposed classifier outperforms the compared recognition algorithms, such as neural network and sparse representation.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.355-359
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• 2014

In this paper, we proposed the new fuzzy pattern classifier which combines several fuzzy models with simple consequent parts hierarchically. The basic component of the proposed fuzzy pattern classifier with hierarchical structure is a fuzzy model with simple consequent part so that the complexity of the proposed fuzzy pattern classifier is not high. In order to analyze and divide the input space, we use Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm. In addition, we exploit Conditional Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm to analyze the sub space which is divided by Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm. At each clustered region, we apply a fuzzy model with simple consequent part and build the fuzzy pattern classifier with hierarchical structure. Because of the hierarchical structure of the proposed pattern classifier, the data distribution of the input space can be analyzed in the macroscopic point of view and the microscopic point of view. Finally, in order to evaluate the classification ability of the proposed pattern classifier, the machine learning data sets are used.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.11 no.3
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• pp.1614-1632
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• 2017

Bag of visual words is a popular model in human action recognition, but usually suffers from loss of spatial and temporal configuration information of local features, and large quantization error in its feature coding procedure. In this paper, to overcome the two deficiencies, we combine sparse coding with spatio-temporal pyramid for human action recognition, and regard this method as the baseline. More importantly, which is also the focus of this paper, we find that there is a hierarchical structure in feature vector constructed by the baseline method. To exploit the hierarchical structure information for better recognition accuracy, we propose a tree regularized classifier to convey the hierarchical structure information. The main contributions of this paper can be summarized as: first, we introduce a tree regularized classifier to encode the hierarchical structure information in feature vector for human action recognition. Second, we present an optimization algorithm to learn the parameters of the proposed classifier. Third, the performance of the proposed classifier is evaluated on YouTube, Hollywood2, and UCF50 datasets, the experimental results show that the proposed tree regularized classifier obtains better performance than SVM and other popular classifiers, and achieves promising results on the three datasets.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.513-518
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• 2007

In this paper, we propose a fault diagnosis scheme tor induction motor by adopting a hierarchical classifier consisting of k-Nearest Neighbors(k-NN) and Support Vector Machine(SVM). First, some motor conditions are classified by a simple k-NN classifier in advance. And then, more complicated classes are distinguished by SVM. To obtain the normal and fault data, we established an experimental unit with induction motor system and data acquisition module. Feature extraction is performed by Principal Component Analysis(PCA). To show its effectiveness, the proposed fault diagnostic system has been intensively tested with various data acquired under the different electrical and mechanical faults with varying load.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Intelligent Systems Conference
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• 2001.05a
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• pp.187-190
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• 2001

Due to the recent proliferation of the internet, it is broadly granted that the necessity of the automatic document categorization has been on the rise. Since it is a heavy time-consuming work and takes too much manpower to process and classify manually, we need a system that categorizes them automatically as their contents. In this paper, we propose the automatic E-mail response system that is based on 2 hierarchical document clustering methods. One is to get the final result from the classifier trained seperatly within each class, after clustering the whole documents into 3 groups so that the first classifier categorize the input documents as the corresponding group. The other method is that the system classifies the most distinct classes first as their similarity, successively. Neural networks have been adopted as classifiers, we have used dendrograms to show the hierarchical aspect of similarities between classes. The comparison among the performances of hierarchical and non-hierarchical classifiers tells us clustering methods have provided the classification efficiency.

• Journal of Institute of Control, Robotics and Systems
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.499-505
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• 1998

In developing an automated surface inspect algorithm, we have designed a hierarchical classifier using neural network. The defects which exist on the surface of cold mill strip have a scattering or singular distribution. We have considered three major problems, that is preprocessing, feature extraction and defect classification. In preprocessing, Top-hit transform, adaptive thresholding, thinning and noise rejection are used Especially, Top-hit transform using local minimax operation diminishes the effect of bad lighting. In feature extraction, geometric, moment, co-occurrence matrix, and histogram ratio features are calculated. The histogram ratio feature is taken from the gray-level image. For defect classification, we suggest a hierarchical structure of which nodes are multilayer neural network classifiers. The proposed algorithm reduced error rate by comparing to one-stage structure.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.76-82
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• 2002

In this paper, we implemented on the classifier for differential diagnosis of laryngeals disease which is normal, polyp, nodule, palsy, and each step of glottic cancer using hierarchical neural network. We conducted on classifier of various vowels as /a/, /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ from normal group, laryngeal disease group, each step of cancer group. The experimental result on classification of each vowels as follows. A /a/ vowel shows excellent classification result to the other vowels in regard to each Input parameters. Thus we implemented the hierarchical neural network for differential diagnosis of laryngeals disease using only /a/ vowel. A implemented hierarchical neural network is composed of each other laryngeals disease apply to each other parameter in each hierarchical layer. We take the voice signals from patient who get the laryngeal disease and glottic cancer, and then use the APQ, PPQ, vAm, Jitter, Shimmer, RAP as input parameter of neural networks.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.77-85
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• 2006

In this paper, we propose a hierarchical classifier of object images using neural networks for content-based image classification. The images for classification are object images that can be divided into foreground and background. In the preprocessing step, we extract the object region and shape-based texture features extracted from wavelet transformed images. We group the image classes into clusters which have similar texture features using Principal Component Analysis(PCA) and K-means. The hierarchical classifier has five layes which combine the clusters. The hierarchical classifier consists of 59 neural network classifiers learned with the back propagation algorithm. Among the various texture features, the diagonal moment was the most effective. A test with 1000 training data and 1000 test data composed of 10 images from each of 100 classes shows classification rates of 81.5% and 75.1% correct, respectively.

• Journal of the Korean Institute of Telematics and Electronics B
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• v.28B no.11
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• pp.852-858
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• 1991

An adaptive hierarchical classifier(AHCL) for Korean character recognition using a neural net is designed. This classifier has two neural nets: USACL (Unsupervised Adaptive Classifier) and SACL (Supervised Adaptive Classifier). USACL has the input layer and the output layer. The input layer and the output layer are fully connected. The nodes in the output layer are generated by the unsupervised and nearest neighbor learning rule during learning. SACL has the input layer, the hidden layer and the output layer. The input layer and the hidden layer arefully connected, and the hidden layer and the output layer are partially connected. The nodes in the SACL are generated by the supervised and nearest neighbor learning rule during learning. USACL has pre-attentive effect, which perform partial search instead of full search during SACL classification to enhance processing speed. The input of USACL and SACL is a directional edge feature with a directional receptive field. In order to test the performance of the AHCL, various multi-font printed Hangul characters are used in learning and testing, and its processing its speed and and classification rate are compared with the conventional LVQ(Learning Vector Quantizer) which has the nearest neighbor learning rule.

• Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications
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• v.36 no.8
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• pp.633-641
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• 2009

In this paper, we proposed a new pattern classifier which can be incrementally learned, be added new class in learning time, and handle with analog data. Proposed pattern classifier has hierarchical structure and the classification rate is improved by using different metric for each levels. Proposed model is based on the Gaussian ARTMAP which is an artificial neural network model for the pattern classification. We hierarchically constructed the Gaussian ARTMAP and proposed the Principal Component Emphasis(P.C.E) method to be learned different features in each levels. And we defined new metric based on the P.C.E. P.C.E is a method that discards dimensions whose variation are small, that represents common attributes in the class. And remains dimensions whose variation are large. In the learning process, if input pattern is misclassified, P.C.E are performed and the modified pattern is learned in sub network. Experimental results indicate that Hierarchical Gaussian ARTMAP yield better classification result than the other pattern recognition algorithms on variable data set including real applicable problem.