Enhanced Random Forest-Based Model forFlood Detection andClassification
subject: Bag-of-visual-words; Flood detection; Natural disaster; Random Forest algorithm
description: Flooding is one of the most devastating natural disasters globally, causing extensive damage to infrastructure, the environment, and human lives. With increasing occurrences due to climate change, accurate classification and analysis of flood imagery are essential for early detection, damage assessment, and post-disaster recovery. Reliable flood classification systems are critical for early warning, resource allocation, and mitigation efforts, helping to minimize the impact on affected regions. Remote sensing and computer vision techniques, including the Bag-of-Visual-Words (BOV) model, offer powerful tools for interpreting flood images by categorizing and identifying flooded regions across vast and complex terrains. This paper presents a modification of the standard Random Forest algorithm to enhance the accuracy of image classification within a Bag-of-Visual-Words (BOV) model. The modified Random Forest achieves better adaptability and performance across flood image datasets by introducing flexibility in parameter tuning through custom hyperparameters and automatic grid search. This modification addresses challenges in balancing efficiency and accuracy for classifying high-dimensional image data sets. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2026.
creator: Arora, Suchita; Kumar, Sunil; Kumar, Sandeep
source: Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies;Volume;122 SIST;pp.799-807
publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
date: 01-01-2026
rights: Restricted Access; Hardcopy may be available in the library
relation: ISSN: 21903018; ISBN: 978-981966249-4;
language: English
type: Conference paper
coverage: Arora S., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Poornima University, Rajasthan, Jaipur, 303905, India; Kumar S., Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Amity University Rajasthan, Jaipur, India; Kumar S., Department of AI, ML and Data Science, Christ University, Bangalore, India