4.21. Combining Classifiers
The present chapter is the third one concerning the classifier design phase. Although we have not exhausted the list (a few more cases will be discussed in the chapters to follow), we feel that we have presented to the reader the most popular directions currently used for the design of a classifier.
Another trend that offers more possibilities to the designer is to combine different classifiers. Thus, one can exploit their individual advantages in order to reach an overall better performance than could be achieved by using each of them separately. An important observation that justifies such an approach is the following. From the different (candidate) classifiers we design in order to choose the one that fits our ...
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