Unknown Aware k Nearest Neighbor Classifier

AuthorsHassan Homayoun,Amin Hanaei Ahwaz
Conference Title3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IPRIA 2017) April 19-20, 2017
Holding Date of Conference2017-04-19 - 2017-04-20
Event Place1 - شهرکرد
Presented byشهرکرد
PresentationSPEECH
Conference LevelInternational Conferences

Abstract

Unknown awareness is very important for many applications such as face recognition. In a typical unknown aware classifier, an “unknown” label is assigned to strange test instances. This study proposes an unknown aware classifier known as UAkNN by extending the well-known kNN classifier. In UAkNN, unknown awareness is achieved by exploiting distances between instances of individual classes. These distances and their related statistics are used to confirm the kNN prediction or change it to “unknown”. Average accuracy of 85 percent based on the Iris dataset by using 5-fold cross validation has been achieved. Experimental results demonstrate that UAkNN is promising under various test situation

tags: classification; UAkNN; kNN; unknown awareness; strange instances; unknown instances