Fast image classification by boosting fuzzy classifiers

This paper presents a novel approach to visual objects classification based on generating simple fuzzy classifiers using local image features to distinguish between one known class and other classes. Boosting meta-learning is used to find the most representative local features. The proposed approach is tested on a state-of-the-art image dataset and compared with the bag-of-features image representation model combined with the Support Vector Machine classification. The novel method gives better classification accuracy and the time of learning and testing process is more than 30% shorter.