MCS – 9th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems – Cairo, April 7-9 2010

MCS 2010 – 9th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems
Nile University, Cairo, Egypt, April 7-9 2010
http://www.diee.unica.it/mcs/

MCS 2010 is the ninth workshop in a well-established series
of meetings providing an international forum for the
discussion of issues in multiple classifier system design.
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers from
diverse communities concerned with this topic, including
neural network, pattern recognition, machine learning and
statistics. Information on the previous MCS workshops can
be found on www.diee.unica.it/mcs . The special focus of
MCS 2010 will be on the application of multiple classifier
systems in data mining, medical imaging and bioinformatics.

* WORKSHOP CHAIRS *
– Neamat El Gayar (Nile Univ., Egypt)
– Josef Kittler (Univ. of Surrey, United Kingdom)
– Fabio Roli (Univ. of Cagliari, Italy)

Sponsored by the PASCAL2 Network of Excellence

Endorsed by the IAPR

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* PRELIMINARY PROGRAM *
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Day 1: WEDNESDAY 7 APRIL
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Pick up (8:15 am Hilton 6th October, 8:30 am NOVOTEL 6th October)

9:00 – 09:20
Registration

09:20 -09:30
Opening
Neamat El Gayar, Josef Kittler and Fabio Roli

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Classifier Ensemble I
Session Chair: Ludmila Kuncheva

09:30
Weighted Bagging for Graph based One-Class Classifiers
Santi Segui, Laura Igual and Jordi Vitria

09:55
Improving multilabel classi_cation performance by using Ensemble of Multi-label Classi_ers
Muhammad Atif Tahir, Josef Kittler, Krystian Mikolajczyk, and Fei Yan

10:20
New Feature Splitting criteria for Co-training using Genetic Algorithm Optimization
Ahmed Salaheldin and Neamat El Gayar

10:45
Incremental Learning of New Classes in Unbalanced Datasets: Learn++.UDNC
Gregory Ditzler, Michael D. Muhlbaier and Robi Polikar

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11:10
Coffee Break

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Invited Talk I
Session Chair: Fabio Roli

11:30
Gavin Brown
Some Thoughts at the Interface of Ensemble Methods and Feature Selection

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Classifier Ensemble II
Session Chair: Josef Kittler

12:15
Tomographic Considerations in Ensemble Bias/Variance Decomposition
David Windridge

12:40
Choosing Parameters for Random Subspace Ensembles for fMRI Classification
Ludmila I. Kuncheva and Catrin O. Plumpton

13:05
An Experimental Study on Ensembles of Functional Trees
Juan J. Rodr__guez, C_esar Garc__a-Osorio, Jes_us Maudes, and Jos_e Francisco D__ez-Pastor

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13:25
Lunch/ Poster Set Up

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Session I (Classifier Ensemble III)
Session Chair: David Windridge

14:45
Multiple classi_er systems under attack
Battista Biggio, Giorgio Fumera, and Fabio Roli

15:10
SOCIAL: Self-Organizing ClassIfier ensemble for Adversarial Learning
Francesco Gargiulo and Carlo Sansone

15:35
Unsupervised Change-Detection in Retinal Images by a Multiple Classifier Approach
Giulia Troglio, Marina Alberti, J_on Atli Benediksson, Gabriele Moser, Sebastiano Bruno Serpico and Einar Stef_ansson

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Poster session & Coffee
16:00

Forecast Combination Strategies for Handling Structural Breaks for Time Series Forecasting
Waleed M. Azmy, Amir F. Atiya, Hisham El-Shishiny

A Multiple Classi_er System for Classi_cation of LIDAR Remote Sensing Data Using Multi-class SVM
Farhad Samadzadegan, Behnaz Bigdeli, Pouria Ramzi

A Multi-Classi_er System for O_-Line Signature Veri_cation Based on Dissimilarity Representation
Luana Batista, Eric Granger and Robert Sabourin

A Multi-Objective Sequential Ensemble for Cluster Structure Analysis and Visualization Application to Gene Expression
Noha A. Yousri

Combining 2D and 3D Features to Classify Protein Mutants in HeLa Cells 282
Carlo Sansone, Vincenzo Paduano, and Michele Ceccarelli

An experimental comparison of Hierarchical Bayes and True Path Rule ensembles for protein function prediction.
Matteo Re and Giorgio Valentini

Recognizing Combinations of Facial Action Units with Di_erent Intensity Using a Mixture of Hidden Markov Models and Neural Network
Mahmoud Khademi, Mohammad Taghi Manzuri-Shalmani,, Mohammad Hadi Kiapour, and Ali Akbar Kiaei

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End of scientific program for Day 1
17:30

18:00
Welcome Reception at the new Campus for Nile University

19:30
Return to hotels (Novotel 6th October, Hilton 6th October)
End of Day 1

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Day 2: THURSDAY 8 APRIL
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Pick up (8:15 am Hilton 6th October, 8:30 am NOVOTEL 6th October,)

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Classifier Diversity
Session Chair: Gunther Palm

9:20
“Good” and “Bad” Diversity in Majority Vote Ensembles
Gavin Brown and Ludmila I. Kuncheva

9:45
Multi-Information Ensemble Diversity
Zhi-Hua Zhou and Nan Li

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Invited Paper
Session Chair: Horst Bunke

10:10
Multiple classifer systems for the recognition of human emotions
Friedhelm Schwenker, Stefan Scherer, Miriam Schmidt, Martin Schels, Michael Glodek

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10:55
Coffee

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Boosting and bootstrapping
Session Chair: Robert Duin

11:30
Class-Separability Weighting and Bootstrapping in Error Correcting Output Code Ensembles
R.S.Smith and T.Windeatt

11.55
Boosted Geometry-based Ensembles
Oriol Pujol

12.20
Online Non-Stationary Boosting
Adam Pocock, Paraskevas Yiapanis, Jeremy Singer, Mikel Luj_an, and Gavin Brown

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Combining multiple kernels
Session Chair: Giorgio Fumera

12:45
A Support Kernel Machine for Supervised Selective Combining of Diverse Pattern-Recognition Modalities
Alexander Tatarchuk, Eugene Urlov, Vadim Mottl, David Windridge

13:10
Combining Multiple Kernels by Augmenting the Kernel Matrix
Fei Yan Krystian Mikolajczyk Josef Kittler Muhammad Atif Tahir

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13.25
Lunch

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Handwriting recognition
Session Chair: Zhi-Zhou

14:45
Combining Neural Networks to Improve Performance of Handwritten Keyword Spotting
Volkmar Frinken, Andreas Fischer and Horst Bunke

15:10
Combining Committee-based Semi-supervised and Active Learning and Its Application to Handwritten Digits Recognition
Mohamed Farouk Abdel Hady, Friedhelm Schwenker

15:35
Using Diversity in Classi_er Set Selection for Arabic Handwritten Recognition
Nabiha Azizi, Nadir Farah, Mokhtar Sellami, Abdel Ennaji

16:00
End of scientific program for Day2

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Transportation to City and Banquet at El Azhar Park

Return to hotels (Novotel 6th October, Hilton 6th October)

End of Day 2

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Day 3: FRIDAY 9 APRIL
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Pick up (8:15 am Hilton 6th October, 8:30 am NOVOTEL 6th October,)

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Session I (Classifier Ensemble / Selection)
Session Chair: Terry Windeatt

09:30
Dynamic Selection of Ensembles of Classi_ers Using Contextual
Information
Paulo R. Cavalin, Robert Sabourin, and Ching Y. Suen

09:55
Selecting Structural Base Classi_ers for Graph-based Multiple Classi_er
Systems
Wan-Jui Lee, Robert P.W. Duin and Horst Bunke

10:20
A double pruning algorithm for classi_cation ensembles
V__ctor Soto, Gonzalo Mart__nez-Mu~noz, Daniel Hern_andez-Lobato, and Alberto Su_arez

10:45
Estimation of the number of clusters using multiple clustering validity indices
Krzysztof Kryszczuk and Paul Hurley

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11:10
Coffee Break

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Panel Discussion
Moderator: Fabio Roli , Mohamed Kamel, Ludmila Kuncheva , Robi Polikar
11:30 – 13.00

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13:00
Lunch

End of scientific program for Day 3

Optional Half Day Cultural Program (Pyramids visit and Sound and Light show)

Return to hotels (Novotel 6th October, Hilton 6th October)

End of Day 3