Support Vector Machines for Pattern Classification

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Springer Science & Business Media, 2005 M12 28 - 344 pages
I was shocked to see a student’s report on performance comparisons between support vector machines (SVMs) and fuzzy classi?ers that we had developed withourbestendeavors.Classi?cationperformanceofourfuzzyclassi?erswas comparable, but in most cases inferior, to that of support vector machines. This tendency was especially evident when the numbers of class data were small. I shifted my research e?orts from developing fuzzy classi?ers with high generalization ability to developing support vector machine–based classi?ers. This book focuses on the application of support vector machines to p- tern classi?cation. Speci?cally, we discuss the properties of support vector machines that are useful for pattern classi?cation applications, several m- ticlass models, and variants of support vector machines. To clarify their - plicability to real-world problems, we compare performance of most models discussed in the book using real-world benchmark data. Readers interested in the theoretical aspect of support vector machines should refer to books such as [109, 215, 256, 257].

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Nomenclature 1
2
TwoClass Support Vector Machines 15
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166
Feature Selection and Extraction
189
Clustering
201
KernelBased Methods
209
MaximumMargin Multilayer Neural Networks
223
MaximumMargin Fuzzy Classifiers 237
236
Function Approximation
265
A Conventional Classifiers
297
Quadratic Programming
309
References
319
Index 339
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