Self-Fuzzification Method according to Typicality Correlation for Classification on tiny Data Sets

This article presents a self-fuzzification method to enhance the settings of a fuzzy reasoning classification adapted to the automated inspection of wooden boards. The supervised classification is made thanks to fuzzy linguistic rules generated from small training data sets. This study especially answers to a double industrial need about the pattern recognition in wooden boards. Firstly, few samples are available to generate the recognition model. This aspect makes lesser efficient compilation methods like neural networks in terms of recognition rates. Secondly, the settings of the classification method must be simplified, because the users are not experts in fuzzy logic. In this article, two points are presented. The first part demonstrates the generalization capability of the presented classification method in comparison to more classical algorithms. In the second part, we propose a new automatic method of parameter fuzzification, by using the typicality correlation coefficients of each class.