Title
Predictive Ensemble Learning with Application to Scene Text Detection.
Abstract
Deep learning based approaches have achieved significant progresses in different tasks like classification, detection, segmentation, and so on. Ensemble learning is widely known to further improve performance by combining multiple complementary models. It is easy to apply ensemble learning for classification tasks, for example, based on averaging, voting, or other methods. However, for other tasks (like object detection) where the outputs are varying in quantity and unable to be simply compared, the ensemble of multiple models become difficult. In this paper, we propose a new method called Predictive Ensemble Learning (PEL), based on powerful predictive ability of deep neural networks, to directly predict the best performing model among a pool of base models for each test example, thus transforming ensemble learning to a traditional classification task. Taking scene text detection as the application, where no suitable ensemble learning strategy exists, PEL can significantly improve the performance, compared to either individual state-of-the-art models, or the fusion of multiple models by non-maximum suppression. Experimental results show the possibility and potential of PEL in predicting different models' performance based only on a query example, which can be extended for ensemble learning in many other complex tasks.
Year
Venue
DocType
2019
arXiv: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Journal
Volume
Citations 
PageRank 
abs/1905.04641
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Danlu Chen191.13
Xu-Yao Zhang2163.65
Wei Zhang326028.92
Yao Lu41066.20
Xiuli Li511.71
Tao Mei64702288.54