In this paper, we evaluate different popular voting strategies for fusion of classifier results. A convolutional neural network (CNN) and different variants of random forest (RF) classifiers were trained to discriminate between 15 tree species based on airborne hyperspectral imaging data. The spectral data was preprocessed with a multi-class linear discriminant analysis (MCLDA) as a means to reduce dimensionality and to obtain spatial–spectral features. The best individual classifier was a CNN with a classification accuracy of 0.73 +/− 0.086. The classification performance increased to an accuracy of 0.78 +/− 0.053 by using precision weighted voting for a hybrid ensemble of the CNN and two RF classifiers. This voting strategy clearly outperformed majority voting (0.74), accuracy weighted voting (0.75), and presidential voting (0.75).
%0 Journal Article
%1 KSvRS+19
%A Knauer, Uwe
%A Styp von Rekowski, Cornelius
%A Stecklina, Marianne
%A Krokotsch, Tilman
%A Pham Minh, Tuan
%A Hauffe, Viola
%A Kilias, David
%A Ehrhardt, Ina
%A Sagischewski, Herbert
%A Chmara, Sergej
%A Seiffert, Udo
%D 2019
%J Remote Sensing
%K itegpub
%N 23
%R 10.3390/rs11232788
%T Tree Species Classification Based on Hybrid Ensembles of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Random Forest Classifiers
%U https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/23/2788
%V 11
%X In this paper, we evaluate different popular voting strategies for fusion of classifier results. A convolutional neural network (CNN) and different variants of random forest (RF) classifiers were trained to discriminate between 15 tree species based on airborne hyperspectral imaging data. The spectral data was preprocessed with a multi-class linear discriminant analysis (MCLDA) as a means to reduce dimensionality and to obtain spatial–spectral features. The best individual classifier was a CNN with a classification accuracy of 0.73 +/− 0.086. The classification performance increased to an accuracy of 0.78 +/− 0.053 by using precision weighted voting for a hybrid ensemble of the CNN and two RF classifiers. This voting strategy clearly outperformed majority voting (0.74), accuracy weighted voting (0.75), and presidential voting (0.75).
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abstract = {In this paper, we evaluate different popular voting strategies for fusion of classifier results. A convolutional neural network (CNN) and different variants of random forest (RF) classifiers were trained to discriminate between 15 tree species based on airborne hyperspectral imaging data. The spectral data was preprocessed with a multi-class linear discriminant analysis (MCLDA) as a means to reduce dimensionality and to obtain spatial–spectral features. The best individual classifier was a CNN with a classification accuracy of 0.73 +/− 0.086. The classification performance increased to an accuracy of 0.78 +/− 0.053 by using precision weighted voting for a hybrid ensemble of the CNN and two RF classifiers. This voting strategy clearly outperformed majority voting (0.74), accuracy weighted voting (0.75), and presidential voting (0.75).},
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article-number = {2788},
author = {Knauer, Uwe and Styp von Rekowski, Cornelius and Stecklina, Marianne and Krokotsch, Tilman and Pham Minh, Tuan and Hauffe, Viola and Kilias, David and Ehrhardt, Ina and Sagischewski, Herbert and Chmara, Sergej and Seiffert, Udo},
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title = {Tree Species Classification Based on Hybrid Ensembles of a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Random Forest Classifiers},
url = {https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/23/2788},
volume = 11,
year = 2019
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