Evaluation and Comparison of Machine Learning Algorithms for Effective Image Classification with Fault-Tolerance

Image classification is critical in computer vision, with numerous applications ranging from e-commerce to medical imaging. This study provides a comprehensive evaluation of traditional machine learning algorithms for image classification, implementing and analysing novel fault tolerance mechanisms amongst these algorithms. The authors compared the performance of K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Decision Trees, Random Forest, and XGBoost on both Fashion MNIST and CIFAR-10 datasets. The comparison was extended to include Support Vector Machine (SVM), Logistic Regression, and Naive Bayes classifiers in order to expand the evaluation of these models on the indicated datasets. Key findings demonstrated the superiority of ensemble methods, particularly XGBoost, which achieved 89.31% of accuracy on Fashion MNIST and 54.93% on CIFAR-10, consistently outperforming other models across various configurations. Random Forest exhibited robust performance as the secondbest model, reaching 87.42% and 51.64% of accuracy on the respective datasets. The significant performance gap between datasets demonstrated the challenges that traditional machine learning models face with complex image data. Implementi