Support Vector Machines for Pattern Classification

I was shocked to see a student's report on performance comparisons between support vector machines (SVMs) and fuzzy classi?ers that we had developed withourbestendeavors.Classi?cationperformanceofourfuzzyclassi?erswas comparable, but in most cases inferior, to that of support vector machines.

This tendency was especially evident when the numbers of class data were small.

I shifted my research e?orts from developing fuzzy classi?ers with high generalization ability to developing support vector machine-based classi?ers.

This book focuses on the application of support vector machines to p- tern classi?cation.

Speci?cally, we discuss the properties of support vector machines that are useful for pattern classi?cation applications, several m- ticlass models, and variants of support vector machines.

To clarify their - plicability to real-world problems, we compare performance of most models discussed in the book using real-world benchmark data.

Readers interested in the theoretical aspect of support vector machines should refer to books such as [109, 215, 256, 257].