Yu-Shiuan Tsai^*, Zhen-Rong Wu, Jian-Zhi Liu

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.2, pp. 3431-3457, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.066509 - 03 July 2025

Abstract Few-shot learning has emerged as a crucial technique for coral species classification, addressing the challenge of limited labeled data in underwater environments. This study introduces an optimized few-shot learning model that enhances classification accuracy while minimizing reliance on extensive data collection. The proposed model integrates a hybrid similarity measure combining Euclidean distance and cosine similarity, effectively capturing both feature magnitude and directional relationships. This approach achieves a notable accuracy of 71.8% under a 5-way 5-shot evaluation, outperforming state-of-the-art models such as Prototypical Networks, FEAT, and ESPT by up to 10%. Notably, the model demonstrates high… More >

Yu-Xiang Zhao^*, Yi Lee

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.84, No.1, pp. 791-810, 2025, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2025.065048 - 09 June 2025

Abstract Bird species classification is not only a challenging topic in artificial intelligence but also a domain closely related to environmental protection and ecological research. Additionally, performing edge computing on low-level devices using small neural networks can be an important research direction. In this paper, we use the EfficientNetV2B0 model for bird species classification, applying transfer learning on a dataset of 525 bird species. We also employ the BiRefNet model to remove backgrounds from images in the training set. The generated background-removed images are mixed with the original training set as a form of data augmentation.… More >

Chao-Lung Yang¹, Yulius Harjoseputro^2,3, Yu-Chen Hu⁴, Yung-Yao Chen^2,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.73, No.3, pp. 4577-4593, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.031305 - 28 July 2022

Abstract This research proposed an improved transfer-learning bird classification framework to achieve a more precise classification of Protected Indonesia Birds (PIB) which have been identified as the endangered bird species. The framework takes advantage of using the proposed sequence of Batch Normalization Dropout Fully-Connected (BNDFC) layers to enhance the baseline model of transfer learning. The main contribution of this work is the proposed sequence of BNDFC that can be applied to any Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based model to improve the classification accuracy, especially for image-based species classification problems. The experiment results show that the proposed More >