Cohort Based Approach to Multiexpert Class Verification

We address the problem of cohort based normalisation in multiexpert class verification. We show that there is a relationship between decision templates and cohort based normalisation methods. Thanks to this relationship, some of the recent features of cohort score normalisation techniques can be adopted by decision templates, with the benefit of noise reduction and the ability to compensate for any distribution drift.

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