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Hybrid fuzzy support vector machine approach for Coconut tree classification using image measurement

Publication Type : Journal Article

Publisher : Elsevier

Source : Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence

Url : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0952197623009909

Campus : Amritapuri

School : Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, School of Engineering

Center : Humanitarian Technology (HuT) Labs

Year : 2023

Abstract : Classification of trees based on morphological parameters is important for identification, taxonomy, ecological research, conservation etc. The manual measurement of these parameters is tedious, laborious, and inconsistent. Even though there are many tree classification methods based on the morphological parameters available in the literature, there is hardly any research in classification of Coconut trees based on morphological parameters. This research proposes a novel hybrid fuzzy support vector machine approach for classification of Coconut trees based on three critical morphological parameters such as height, inclination, and orientation. A fuzzy logic-based parameter measurement from image is used to estimate critical morphological parameters the from the images. An original dataset of 17000 images of Indian west coast tall Coconut trees is created to train and test the proposed method. The classification for each of the three parameters is carried out separately using fuzzy logic and support vector machine and the best classification is chosen using confidence voting method. The final classification of the Coconut trees based on all the three parameters is obtained using weight-based indexing by combining the individual outcome of confidence voting method. The results showed that the proposed architecture gives better performance than state-of-the-art classifiers, with an accuracy of 88.86%.

Cite this Research Publication : Sakthiprasad Kuttankulangara Manoharan., Megalingam, R.K., Kota, A.H. and Sankardas, K.S., 2023. Hybrid fuzzy support vector machine approach for Coconut tree classification using image measurement. Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 126, p.106806. 

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