Title
Inspection of Underwater Hull Surface Condition Using the Soft Voting Ensemble of the Transfer-Learned Models
Abstract
In this study, we propose a method for inspecting the condition of hull surfaces using underwater images acquired from the camera of a remotely controlled underwater vehicle (ROUV). To this end, a soft voting ensemble classifier comprising six well-known convolutional neural network models was used. Using the transfer learning technique, the images of the hull surfaces were used to retrain the six models. The proposed method exhibited an accuracy of 98.13%, a precision of 98.73%, a recall of 97.50%, and an F-1-score of 98.11% for the classification of the test set. Furthermore, the time taken for the classification of one image was verified to be approximately 56.25 ms, which is applicable to ROUVs that require real-time inspection.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.3390/s22124392
SENSORS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
hull cleaning condition, underwater inspection image, soft voting ensemble classification, transfer learning
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
12
1424-8220
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Byung-Chul Kim18113.59
Hoe Chang Kim200.34
Sungho Han300.34
Dong Kyou Park400.34