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Intelligent Engineering Systems through Artificial Neural Networks Volume 18
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Cihan H. Dagli
Cihan H. Dagli
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ISBN-10:
0791802823
ISBN:
9780791802823
No. of Pages:
700
Publisher:
ASME Press
Publication date:
2008

In this paper, active learning with kernel machines, including Support Vector Machines and the p-Center Machine, is applied to the problem of tornado detection. This method is used to discriminate which storm-scale circulations yield tornadoes based on the radar derived Mesocyclone Detection Algorithm (MDA) and near-storm environment (NSE) attributes. The main objective of active learning is to choose instances or data points that are important to be labeled and included in the training set since labeling the instances in tornado data is considered costly and time consuming. We compare active learning with passive learning where the next instances to be included to the training set are randomly selected. The preliminary results show that active learning can achieve good performance and significantly reduce the training set size.

Abstract
1 Introduction
2 Data Set
3 Experiments
4 Results
5 Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References
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