• DocumentCode
    1107314
  • Title

    Error and Reject Rates in a Hierarchical Pattern Recognizer

  • Author

    Nadler, Morton

  • Author_Institution
    IEEE
  • Issue
    12
  • fYear
    1971
  • Firstpage
    1598
  • Lastpage
    1601
  • Abstract
    The reject and error rates of a certain hierarchical decision structure are derived under assumptions of statistical independence among the members of the hierarchy. It is shown that high decision reliability can be obtained with much more relaxed requirements on the individual recognizers in the hierarchy.
  • Keywords
    Decision tree logic, error rates, hierarchical pattern recognition, linguistic pattern recognition, pattern recognition, reject rates, statistical pattern recognition.; Character recognition; Computer vision; Costs; Error analysis; Image recognition; Information theory; Logic; Object detection; Pattern recognition; Sequential analysis; Decision tree logic, error rates, hierarchical pattern recognition, linguistic pattern recognition, pattern recognition, reject rates, statistical pattern recognition.;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9340
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/T-C.1971.223180
  • Filename
    1671773