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TY - JOUR
T1 - Deep rule-based classifier with human-level performance and characteristics
AU - Angelov, Plamen Parvanov
AU - Gu, Xiaowei
N1 - This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Information Sciences. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Information Sciences, 463-464, 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2018.06.048
PY - 2018/10
Y1 - 2018/10
N2 - In this paper, a new type of multilayer rule-based classifier is proposed and applied to image classification problems. The proposed approach is entirely data-driven and fully automatic. It is generic and can be applied to various classification and prediction problems, but in this paper we focus on image processing, in particular. The core of the classifier is a fully interpretable, understandable, self-organised set of IF…THEN… fuzzy rules based on the prototypes autonomously identified by using a one-pass type training process. The classifier can self-evolve and be updated continuously without a full retraining. Due to the prototype-based nature, it is non-parametric; its training process is non-iterative, highly parallelizable and computationally efficient. At the same time, the proposed approach is able to achieve very high classification accuracy on various benchmark datasets surpassing most of the published methods, be comparable with the human abilities. In addition, it can start classification from the first image of each class in the same way as humans do, which makes the proposed classifier suitable for real-time applications. Numerical examples of benchmark image processing demonstrate the merits of the proposed approach.
AB - In this paper, a new type of multilayer rule-based classifier is proposed and applied to image classification problems. The proposed approach is entirely data-driven and fully automatic. It is generic and can be applied to various classification and prediction problems, but in this paper we focus on image processing, in particular. The core of the classifier is a fully interpretable, understandable, self-organised set of IF…THEN… fuzzy rules based on the prototypes autonomously identified by using a one-pass type training process. The classifier can self-evolve and be updated continuously without a full retraining. Due to the prototype-based nature, it is non-parametric; its training process is non-iterative, highly parallelizable and computationally efficient. At the same time, the proposed approach is able to achieve very high classification accuracy on various benchmark datasets surpassing most of the published methods, be comparable with the human abilities. In addition, it can start classification from the first image of each class in the same way as humans do, which makes the proposed classifier suitable for real-time applications. Numerical examples of benchmark image processing demonstrate the merits of the proposed approach.
KW - Fuzzy rule based classifiers
KW - Deep learning
KW - Non-parametric
KW - Non-iterative
KW - Self-evolving structure
U2 - 10.1016/j.ins.2018.06.048
DO - 10.1016/j.ins.2018.06.048
M3 - Journal article
VL - 463-464
SP - 196
EP - 213
JO - Information Sciences
JF - Information Sciences
SN - 0020-0255
ER -