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Precision Recall Graph
Precision (purity of retrieval)
... measures how much percent of the returned objects are really wanted (from the same class)
Recall (completeness of retrieval)
... measures how much percent of the desired objects (from the same class) are returned
Precision vs. Recall
Example: Asking for 10 objects, we obtain 6 correct results (from the same class) and 4 wrong results. The desired class has 8 elements, so 2 wanted object did not show up! We have a precision of 60 percent (6 out of 10) and a recall of 75 percent (6 out of 8). It becomes clear that the higher the recall, the lower the precision (if we want to obtain all of the interesting results, we get quite a few wrong ones mixed in).
Our method performs really well on this database (almost perfect).
The following graph shows the Precision P for a given Recall R (so P(R)) :
PR Graph
Minimum: 0.998949 and Integral: 0.999902
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