CORPS_F: A NEW TOOL FOR FEATURE ASSESSMENT IN IMPRECISELY SUPERVISED OR FUZZY ENVIRONMENTS
This study presents an effective approach to the hitherto little addressed problem of feature assessment and selection for pattern recognition in imprecisely supervised environments. Unlike in classical supervised environments wherein the representative training samples have crisp class labels, here the samples have fuzzy memberships in several of the different pattern classes in the environment. The new methodology reported here is an outgrowth of a recently developed tool CORPS—Class Overlap Region Partitioning Scheme initially designed for operation in supervised environments and extended later for operation in imperfectly supervised environments. The emphasis here has been the development of a computationally efficient scheme capable of evaluating as rapidly as practical a large number of features individually as to their discrimination potential based on which a smaller subset may be selected, if so desired, for more detailed evaluation in different combinations by other tools.