Computational Intelligence Driven Secure Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Image Classification in Smart City Environment.

Computational intelligence (CI) is a group of nature-simulated computationalmodels and processes for addressing difficult real-life problems. The CI is useful in the UAV domain as it produces efficient, precise, and rapid solutions. Besides, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) developed a hot research topic in the smart city environment. Despite the benefits of UAVs, security remains a major challenging issue. In addition, deep learning (DL) enabled image classification is useful for several applications such as land cover classification, smart buildings, etc. This paper proposes novel meta-heuristics with a deep learning-driven secure UAV image classification (MDLS-UAVIC) model in a smart city environment. The major purpose of the MDLS-UAVIC algorithm is to securely encrypt the images and classify them into distinct class labels. The proposedMDLS-UAVIC model follows a two-stage process: encryption and image classification. The encryption technique for image encryption effectively encrypts the UAV images.Next, the image classification process involves anXception-based deep convolutional neural network for the feature extraction process. Finally, shuffled shepherd optimization (SSO) with a recurrent neural network (RNN) model is applied for UAV image classification, showing the novelty of the work. The experimental validation of the MDLS-UAVIC approach is tested utilizing a benchmark dataset, and the outcomes are examined in various measures. It achieved a high accuracy of 98%. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]