A Sustainable Deep Learning Framework for Object Recognition Using Multi-Layers Deep Features Fusion and Selection

Published in Sustainability (MDPI), 2020

Authors:
Muhammad Rashid, Muhammad Attique Khan, Majed Alhaisoni, Shui-Hua Wang, Syed Rameez Naqvi, Amjad Rehman, Tanzila Saba


This work presents a sustainable deep learning framework for object recognition using multi-layer deep feature extraction, fusion, and selection. The method uses transfer learning with VGG19 and Inception V3, extracts deep features from selected layers, fuses them using a Parallel Maximum Covariance (PMC) approach, and selects the most discriminative features using a Multi Logistic Regression controlled Entropy-Variances (MRcEV) method.

The framework was evaluated on four public datasets: Caltech-101, Birds, Butterflies, and CIFAR-100. The reported accuracies were 95.5%, 100%, 98%, and 68.80%, respectively.


Contributions 📃

  1. A sustainable deep learning framework for complex object classification.
  2. Transfer-learning-based feature extraction using VGG19 and Inception V3.
  3. Feature fusion through Parallel Maximum Covariance (PMC).
  4. Robust feature selection using MRcEV.
  5. Evaluation on multiple public object recognition datasets.

Dataset and Model Summary

ComponentDetails
TaskObject recognition / object classification
ModelsVGG19, Inception V3
Feature FusionParallel Maximum Covariance
Feature SelectionMRcEV
ClassifierEnsemble Subspace Discriminant
DatasetsCaltech-101, Birds, Butterflies, CIFAR-100
JournalSustainability
PublisherMDPI
Publication Date19 June 2020

📖 Citation (BibTeX)

@article{rashid2020sustainable,
  title     = {A Sustainable Deep Learning Framework for Object Recognition Using Multi-Layers Deep Features Fusion and Selection},
  author    = {Rashid, Muhammad and Khan, Muhammad Attique and Alhaisoni, Majed and Wang, Shui-Hua and Naqvi, Syed Rameez and Rehman, Amjad and Saba, Tanzila},
  journal   = {Sustainability},
  volume    = {12},
  number    = {12},
  pages     = {5037},
  year      = {2020},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  doi       = {10.3390/su12125037}
}

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