Robert B Eshun

Work place: North Carolina Agricultural and Techincal State University/ Department of Computational Data Science and Engineering, Greensboro, NC, 27411, USA

E-mail: rbeshun@aggies.ncat.edu

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Biography

Robert B. Eshun is a PhD Computational Science and Engineering candidate at North Carolina A & T State University specializing in ML/AI enabled methods for cancer diagnosis and gene discovery. He obtained his BSc. Computer Science and Physics and MPhil. Computational Nuclear Science and Engineering at the University of Ghana. Robert has interests at the intersection of Bioinformatics and Machine Learning particularly in the areas of deep learning and graph-based models applied to histopathology mages, neuro-images and genomic profiles for feature extraction and discovery, predictive modeling of health-oriented tasks and integrative analysis of the data modalities for informative decision support.

Author Articles
Reduction of Misclassifications in Wildfire Detection: A Weighted Ensemble Deep Learning Approach

By Lawrence Owusu Robert B Eshun Leila Hashemi-Beni Ali AlQahtani Masud R Rashel AKM K. Islam

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijisa.2024.05.05, Pub. Date: 8 Oct. 2024

Governments worldwide are increasingly prioritizing early wildfire detection to safeguard lives, property, and the environment. Although CNN-based models have demonstrated exceptional performance in various computer vision applications, the evolving nature of wildfire images poses significant challenges for a single CNN-based model in wildfire detection. In this study, we addressed this issue by integrating and weighting the differential learning capabilities of three individual transfer learning models: InceptionV3, ResNet50, and VGG16. Experimental results show that the ensemble deep learning models significantly outperformed all single classifiers across all performance metrics. Both the ensemble and weighted ensemble deep learning models achieved 99.7% accuracy, 99.5% precision, 100% recall, 99.8% F1-score, 0.5%false positive rate, 0.0% false negative rate and 0.3% error rate. Additionally, these models reduced the error rate by 98%, 91%, and 40% compared to the error rates of ResNet50, InceptionV3, and VGG16 respectively. A false negative rate of 0% indicates that our proposed ensemble deep learning models identified and predicted all the wildfire instances present in the test set correctly without a single misclassification. This positions our proposed ensemble deep learning models as superior choices for reducing misclassifications in wildfire detection.

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