MULTIPLE CATEGORY LEARNING FOR TRAINING CLASSIFIERS

Described is multiple category learning to jointly train a plurality of classifiers in an iterative manner. Each training iteration associates an adaptive label with each training example, in which during the iterations, the adaptive label of any example is able to be changed by the subsequent reclassification. In this manner, any mislabeled training example is corrected by the classifiers during training. The training may use a probabilistic multiple category boosting algorithm that maintains probability data provided by the classifiers, or a winner-take-all multiple category boosting algorithm selects the adaptive label based upon the highest probability classification. The multiple category boosting training system may be coupled to a multiple instance learning mechanism to obtain the training examples. The trained classifiers may be used as weak classifiers that provide a label used to select a deep classifier for further classification, e.g., to provide a multi-view object detector.