Counter-example generation-based one-class classification

Abstract

For One-Class Classification problems several methods have been proposed in the literature. These methods all have the common feature that the decision boundary is learnt by just using a set of the positive examples. Here we propose a method that extends the training set with a counter-example set, which is generated directly using the set of positive examples. Using the extended training set, a binary classifier (here v-SVM) is applied to separate the positive and the negative points. The results of this novel technique are compared with those of One-Class SVM and the Gaussian Mixture Model on several One-Class Classification tasks. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2007.