A novel feature extraction model to enhance underwater image classification

Muhammad Irfan, Jiangbin Zheng, Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Hassan Arif

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Abstract

Underwater images often suffer from scattering and color distortion because of underwater light transportation characteristics and water impurities. Presence of such factors make underwater image classification task very challenging. We propose a novel classification convolution autoencoder (CCAE), which can classify large size underwater images with promising accuracy. CCAE is designed as a hybrid network, which combines benefits of unsupervised convolution autoencoder to extract non-trivial features and a classifier, for better classification accuracy. In order to evaluate classification accuracy of proposed network, experiments are conducted on Fish4Knowledge dataset and underwater synsets of benchmark ImageNet dataset. Classification accuracy, precision, recall and f1-score results are compared with state-of-the-art deep convolutional neural network (CNN) methods. Results show that proposed system can accurately classify large-size underwater images with promising accuracy and outperforms state-of-the-art deep CNN methods. With the proposed network, we expect to advance underwater image classification research and its applications in many areas like ocean biology, sea exploration and aquatic robotics.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Computing Systems - 3rd International Symposium, ISICS 2020, Proceedings
EditorsCarlos Brito-Loeza, Arturo Espinosa-Romero, Anabel Martin-Gonzalez, Asad Safi
PublisherSpringer
Pages78-91
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783030433635
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Computing Systems, ISICS 2020 - Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 18 Mar 202019 Mar 2020

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
Volume1187 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929
ISSN (Electronic)1865-0937

Conference

Conference3rd International Symposium on Intelligent Computing Systems, ISICS 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited Arab Emirates
CitySharjah
Period18/03/2019/03/20

Keywords

  • Convolutional autoencoder
  • Convolutional neural network
  • Deep learning
  • Underwater images

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