Summary of Sampling Strategies Based on Wisdom Of Crowds For Amazon Deforestation Detection, by Hugo Resende et al.
Sampling Strategies based on Wisdom of Crowds for Amazon Deforestation Detection
by Hugo Resende, Eduardo B. Neto, Fabio A. M. Cappabianco, Alvaro L. Fazenda, Fabio A. Faria
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Aug 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper discusses a machine learning-based approach called ForestEyes (FE) that leverages Citizen Science and machine learning models to aid in tropical forest monitoring. The project aims to provide supplementary data for experts from government and non-profit organizations to combat deforestation. Recent research has shown that involving citizen scientists as labelers can improve machine learning model performance. This paper proposes a novel approach based on the wisdom of crowds, where user entropy-increasing sampling strategies are used to select training samples for an SVM technique. The results show that this strategy outperforms random sampling approaches in deforestation detection tasks, with reduced convergence time. The proposed method has significant implications for forest conservation efforts. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper talks about a way to help protect tropical forests using computer science and people’s input. Tropical forests are super important for the environment, but they’re being cut down at an alarming rate. To stop this, experts need better data to track deforestation. The ForestEyes project uses volunteers (citizen scientists) to label images of forests, which helps machine learning models get better at detecting deforestation. This paper suggests a new way to pick the best training samples for these models by looking at how people make decisions. It shows that this approach works really well and can help experts detect deforestation more accurately. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Machine learning
