@CONFERENCE\{IMM2012-06418, author = "T. S. Alstr{\o}m and B. S. Jensen and M. N. Schmidt and N. V. Kostesha and J. Larsen", title = "Haussdorff and Hellinger for Colorimetric Sensor Array Classification", year = "2012", month = "sep", booktitle = "{IEEE} International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing", volume = "", series = "", editor = "", publisher = "", organization = "", address = "", url = "http://www2.compute.dtu.dk/pubdb/pubs/6418-full.html", abstract = "Development of sensors and systems for detection of chem ical compounds is an important challenge with applications in areas such as anti-terrorism, demining, and environmental monitoring. A newly developed colorimetric sensor array is able to detect explosives and volatile organic compounds; however, each sensor reading consists of hundreds of pixel values, and methods for combining these readings from multiple sensors must be developed to make a classification system. In this work we examine two distance based classification methods, {K-}Nearest Neighbor (KNN) and Gaussian process (GP) classification, which both rely on a suitable distance metric. We evaluate a range of different distance measures and propose a method for sensor fusion in the {GP} classifier. Our results indicate that the best choice of distance measure depends on the sensor and the chemical of interest." }