Comparison of a massive and diverse collection of ensembles and other classifiers for oil spill detection in SAR satellite images

We present a comparison of the largest collection of classifiers considered until now in the literature, composed by 428 methods belonging to 41 very different families. This collection, much larger than the one in our previous work (Fernández-Delgado et al. in J Mach Learn Res 15:3133–3181, 2014),...

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Autores: Mera Pérez, David, Fernández Delgado, Manuel, Cotos Yáñez, José Manuel, Ríos Viqueira, José Ramón, Barro Ameneiro, Senén
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2016
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (USC)
Repositorio:Minerva. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:minerva.usc.gal:10347/43549
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10347/43549
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Oil spill detection
Synthetic Aperture Radar satellite images
Rotation Forests
Artificial Neural Networks
Support Vector Machines
Decision Trees
Bagging
Boosting
Kernel principal component analysis
Classifier ensembles
Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines
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Sumario:We present a comparison of the largest collection of classifiers considered until now in the literature, composed by 428 methods belonging to 41 very different families. This collection, much larger than the one in our previous work (Fernández-Delgado et al. in J Mach Learn Res 15:3133–3181, 2014), includes 320 ensembles (varying the base and meta-classifiers), alongside with Support Vector Machines, Bayesian, Neural Networks, Discriminant Analysis, Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines, Random Forests, Decision Trees and many others. The classifier comparison is developed on the detection of oil spills on Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images taken from satellites. The SAR images have revealed very useful to surveillance maritime agencies for the detection of regular offshore operational discharges, which, despite is commonly accepted, is one of the biggest causes of hydrocarbon marine pollution, instead of tanker and oil platform catastrophes. After a segmentation of the SAR images to select oil spill candidates, classifiers use the features extracted from these candidates to discard frequent and expensives look-alikes (false positives), caused by natural phenomena. Testing experiments revealed that the RotationForest ensemble of MultilayerPerceptron base classifiers, applying Kernel PCA on the original data, achieves the best accuracy and Cohen (87.1 % and 71.0 %, respectively) with a low frequency of false positives (5.13 %).