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arXiv:2208.11058 (cs)
[Submitted on 23 Aug 2022]
Title:Neuroevolution-based Classifiers for Deforestation Detection in Tropical Forests
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View PDFAbstract:Tropical forests represent the home of many species on the planet for flora and fauna, retaining billions of tons of carbon footprint, promoting clouds and rain formation, implying a crucial role in the global ecosystem, besides representing the home to countless indigenous peoples. Unfortunately, millions of hectares of tropical forests are lost every year due to deforestation or degradation. To mitigate that fact, monitoring and deforestation detection programs are in use, in addition to public policies for the prevention and punishment of criminals. These monitoring/detection programs generally use remote sensing images, image processing techniques, machine learning methods, and expert photointerpretation to analyze, identify and quantify possible changes in forest cover. Several projects have proposed different computational approaches, tools, and models to efficiently identify recent deforestation areas, improving deforestation monitoring programs in tropical forests. In this sense, this paper proposes the use of pattern classifiers based on neuroevolution technique (NEAT) in tropical forest deforestation detection tasks. Furthermore, a novel framework called e-NEAT has been created and achieved classification results above $90\%$ for balanced accuracy measure in the target application using an extremely reduced and limited training set for learning the classification models. These results represent a relative gain of $6.2\%$ over the best baseline ensemble method compared in this paper
| Comments: | 6 pages, accepted for presentation at the SIBGRAPI 2022 |
| Subjects: | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2208.11058 [cs.CV] |
| (orarXiv:2208.11058v1 [cs.CV] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2208.11058 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
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From: Fabio Augusto Faria [view email][v1] Tue, 23 Aug 2022 16:04:12 UTC (9,606 KB)
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