TY - JOUR AU - Jaume Amores PY - 2013// TI - Multiple Instance Classification: review, taxonomy and comparative study T2 - AI JO - Artificial Intelligence SP - 81 EP - 105 VL - 201 PB - Elsevier Science Publishers Ltd. Essex, UK KW - Multi-instance learning KW - Codebook KW - Bag-of-Words N2 - Multiple Instance Learning (MIL) has become an important topic in the pattern recognition community, and many solutions to this problemhave been proposed until now. Despite this fact, there is a lack of comparative studies that shed light into the characteristics and behavior of the different methods. In this work we provide such an analysis focused on the classification task (i.e.,leaving out other learning tasks such as regression). In order to perform our study, we implementedfourteen methods grouped into three different families. We analyze the performance of the approaches across a variety of well-known databases, and we also study their behavior in synthetic scenarios in order to highlight their characteristics. As a result of this analysis, we conclude that methods that extract global bag-level information show a clearly superior performance in general. In this sense, the analysis permits us to understand why some types of methods are more successful than others, and it permits us to establish guidelines in the design of new MILmethods. SN - 0004-3702 L1 - http://refbase.cvc.uab.es/files/Amo2013.pdf UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.artint.2013.06.003 N1 - ADAS; 601.042; 600.057 ID - Jaume Amores2013 ER -