Fighter Aircraft Detection using CNN and Transfer Learning

Abstract

In this work, Deep learning techniques such as Convolutional Neural networks (CNN) and Transfer Learning are used to detect and identify Fighter aircraft or jets. A dataset consisting of 21 different aircraft with 20000 images is being processed using the above algorithms. CNN works on the principle of "pooling," which progressively reduces the spatial size of the model to decrease the number of parameters and computations in the network. CNN's are widely used for image detection in different domains, including defense, agriculture, business, face recognition technology, etc. Transfer learning is a machine learning method where a model created for a task is reused as the initial point for a model on a second task. Transfer learning is related to issues such as multi-task learning and concept drift and is not only an area of study in deep learning. The dataset is processed and uses python libraries such as pandas, seaborn, sci-kit- learn, etc., to find any pre-trained patterns and insights. Data is separated into train and test datasets with 80-20 percent of total data, respectively. A model is built using the TensorFlow library for CNN. The metric used is "accuracy." A transfer learning model is also built to compare the accuracy results and adopt the best-fitting one