Performance Evaluation of Different Decision Fusion Approaches for Image Classification

Image classification is one of the major data mining tasks in smart city applications. However, deploying classification models that have good generalization accuracy is highly crucial for reliable decision-making in such applications. One of the ways to achieve good generalization accuracy is through the use of multiple classifiers and the fusion of their decisions. This approach is known as “decision fusion”. The requirement for achieving good results with decision fusion is that there should be dissimilarity between the outputs of the classifiers. This paper proposes and evaluates two ways of attaining the aforementioned dissimilarity. One is using dissimilar classifiers with different architectures, and the other is using similar classifiers with similar architectures but trained with different batch sizes. The paper also compares a number of decision fusion strategies.