IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
Vol 15, No 5: October 2026

Confidence-driven feature selection and ensemble classification using ResNet, AlexNet, and DenseNet for scene recognition

Sumathi Krishnamurthy (Visvesvaraya Technological University)
Shetty Pramod Kumar (Visvesvaraya Technological University)
Halasur Rudrappa Mahadevaswamy (Jagadguru Sri Shivarathreeshwara University)
Ujwala Bagepalli Satishbabu (Visvesvaraya Technological University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Oct 2026

Abstract

Indoor scene recognition is a significant problem because of its structural complexity, illumination variations, and visual similarities between the various scene classes. Recent approaches use convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transfer learning to extract features for classification. In these methods, all the features were considered for classification, which leads to an increase in computational complexity and training time. This leads to more time consumption for processing. To address these challenges, this study proposed a hybrid indoor scene recognition framework that integrates illumination-aware pre-processing, multi-model deep feature extraction, and confidence-based feature fusion. The pre-processing technique uses contrast-limited adaptive histogram equalization (CLAHE) and Retinex enhancement. Deep features are extracted using Alex Krizhevsky network (AlexNet), densely connected convolutional network (DenseNet), and residual network 101 layers (ResNet101) to capture spatial and semantic information. The features extracted are fed to confidence-driven world cup optimization (CD-WCO) to extract the significant features. The final representation is classified using a deep liquid state machine (DLSM) classifier to enhance class discrimination. Our experiments, conducted on the NYU indoor scene dataset with 20 scene categories and the MIT Indoor-15 class subset results indicate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, achieving an overall classification accuracy of 96.5% and 95.2%, respectively.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJAI

Publisher

Subject

Computer Science & IT Engineering

Description

IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI) publishes articles in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). The scope covers all artificial intelligence area and its application in the following topics: neural networks; fuzzy logic; simulated biological evolution algorithms (like ...