Table 3 Average accuracy (%) of different approaches based on different numbers of images and image categories.

From: A Parallel Adaboost-Backpropagation Neural Network for Massive Image Dataset Classification

Image categories

Classification approach

Number of images

500

1,000

2,000

5,000

10,000

20,000

5

RF

96.1

95.0

91.9

85.8

77.8

67.9

SVM

96.3

95.1

92.2

86.5

78.6

69.3

Adaboost-BP

96.3

95.0

92.6

87.4

80.1

71.7

The method of Shi et al.

96.3

95.3

93.5

90.0

85.5

78.3

Parallel BP

100.0

99.6

99.4

99.2

97.5

94.6

Parallel Adaboost-BP

100.0

100.0

99.9

99.8

98.0

97.1

10

RF

95.0

93.5

88.9

82.6

74.3

63.8

SVM

95.1

93.9

89.7

83.8

76.1

65.2

Adaboost-BP

95.1

94.2

91.4

85.5

77.2

67.0

The method of Shi et al.

95.5

94.7

92.6

89.3

84.5

78.0

Parallel BP

99.7

99.5

99.3

99.1

96.8

94.0

Parallel Adaboost-BP

100.0

100.0

99.8

99.7

97.3

96.3

20

RF

93.1

92.0

85.9

77.9

69.1

58.8

SVM

93.5

92.0

86.7

79.3

70.4

60.5

Adaboost-BP

94.0

92.1

88.3

81.9

72.6

62.0

The method of Shi et al.

94.0

94.0

91.6

87.2

80.5

71.8

Parallel BP

99.5

99.4

99.0

97.3

94.1

90.8

Parallel Adaboost-BP

99.8

99.6

99.5

99.0

97.1

95.3

50

RF

92.7

89.4

82.8

75.0

66.6

56.8

SVM

92.8

90.1

83.9

76.9

68.1

58.3

Adaboost-BP

92.8

90.3

85.6

79.1

70.7

60.6

The method of Shi et al.

93.3

93.0

91.0

86.6

78.5

68.9

Parallel BP

98.8

98.7

98.0

97.0

93.8

89.6

Parallel Adaboost-BP

99.7

99.0

98.5

97.4

96.0

93.4

100

RF

89.7

87.6

80.1

73.7

64.1

54.1

SVM

90.3

88.0

81.9

74.2

65.8

56.0

Adaboost-BP

90.9

88.4

83.7

77.5

68.4

58.3

The method of Shi et al.

92.3

92.1

89.0

83.2

69.7

59.4

Parallel BP

98.9

97.6

95.0

93.9

90.2

83.1

Parallel Adaboost-BP

99.5

99.0

98.1

94.8

92.3

90.0

200

RF

87.0

83.6

76.9

68.8

58.1

46.0

SVM

87.1

84.3

77.8

70.0

60.2

49.2

Adaboost-BP

87.2

85.1

79.5

72.3

62.4

51.0

The method of Shi et al.

90.3

89.5

87.6

81.2

68.7

58.3

Parallel BP

98.5

97.1

93.9

90.7

85.3

78.2

Parallel Adaboost-BP

99.5

98.5

98.1

93.4

90.7

86.1