From 466a43fc32bc8d44ebc99d42b1a4ab166bf4c8f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guillaume Pasero <guillaume.pasero@c-s.fr>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:23:37 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] DOC: enhance documentation on confidence maps
---
.../AppClassification/app/otbImageClassifier.cxx | 12 +++++++++++-
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Modules/Applications/AppClassification/app/otbImageClassifier.cxx b/Modules/Applications/AppClassification/app/otbImageClassifier.cxx
index c12ed7df67..8cd4c5b030 100644
--- a/Modules/Applications/AppClassification/app/otbImageClassifier.cxx
+++ b/Modules/Applications/AppClassification/app/otbImageClassifier.cxx
@@ -96,7 +96,17 @@ private:
SetParameterOutputImagePixelType( "out", ImagePixelType_uint8);
AddParameter(ParameterType_OutputImage, "confmap", "Confidence map");
- SetParameterDescription( "confmap", "Confidence map of the produced classification. Meaning depends on the model.");
+ SetParameterDescription( "confmap", "Confidence map of the produced classification. The confidence index depends on the model : \n"
+ " - LibSVM : difference between the two highest probabilities (needs a model with probability estimates, so that classes probabilities can be computed for each sample)\n"
+ " - OpenCV\n"
+ " * Boost : sum of votes\n"
+ " * DecisionTree : (not supported)\n"
+ " * GradientBoostedTree : (not supported)\n"
+ " * KNearestNeighbors : number of neighbors with the same label\n"
+ " * NeuralNetwork : difference between the two highest responses\n"
+ " * NormalBayes : (not supported)\n"
+ " * RandomForest : proportion of decision trees that classified the sample to the second class (only works for 2-class models)\n"
+ " * SVM : distance to margin (only works for 2-class models)\n");
SetParameterOutputImagePixelType( "confmap", ImagePixelType_double);
MandatoryOff("confmap");
--
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