Neera Saxena, Qasima Abbas Kazmi, Chandra Pal and O.P. Vyas,Indian Institute of Information Technology - Allahabad, India

This paper presents an ensemble of neo-cognitron neural network base classifiers to enhance the accuracy of the system, along the experimental results. The method offers lesser computational preprocessing in comparison to other ensemble techniques as it ex-preempts feature extraction process before feeding the data into base classifiers. This is achieved by the basic nature of neo-cognitron, it is a multilayer feed-forward neural network. Ensemble of such base classifiers gives class labels for each pattern that in turn is combined to give the final class label for that pattern. The purpose of this paper is not only to exemplify learning behaviour of neo-cognitron as base classifiers, but also to purport better fashion to combine neural network based ensemble classifiers.

Classifier ensemble, Error Back-Propagation, Multiple Classifier Combination, Neocognitron, Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition