Imbalanced object classification using a new convolutional neural network and principal component analysis
摘要
Deep learning techniques excel in balanced image classification but often struggle with imbalanced datasets, leading to poor recognition of minority-class samples. To address this, we propose a novel Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture designed for imbalanced object classification. Our approach integrates an adaptive feature extraction mechanism that selectively fuses discriminative features when classification accuracy falls below a predefined threshold. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) reduces the dimensionality of feature vectors, minimizing computational complexity and memory requirements. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves 98.91% accuracy on the Caltech-101 dataset and 98.00% on the Pascal VOC 2012 dataset, outperforming several state-of-the-art techniques. These results validate the effectiveness of our approach in addressing class imbalance challenges.