Classifier Belief Optimization for Visual Categorization

Classifier belief represents the confidence of a classifier making judgment about a special instance. Based on classifier belief, we propose an approach to realize classifier belief optimization. Through enriching prior knowledge and thus reducing the scope of candidate classes, our approach improves classification accuracy. A feature perturbation strategy containing an objective optimization is developed to automatically generate labeled instances. Moreover, we propose a classifier consensus strategy (CCS) for classifier optimization. CCS enables a given classifier to take full advantage of the test data to enrich prior knowledge. Experiments on three benchmark datasets and three classical classifiers justify the validity of the proposed approach. We improve the classification accuracy of a linear SVM by 6%.