Utilization of Multi-Channel Hybrid Deep Neural Networks for Avocado Ripeness Classification
Received: 26 April 2024 | Accepted: 12 May 2024 | Online: 16 May 2024
Corresponding author: Sumitra Nuanmeesri
Abstract
Ripeness classification is crucial in ensuring the quality and marketability of avocados. This paper aims to develop the Multi-Channel Hybrid Deep Neural Networks (MCHDNN) model between Visual Geometry Group 16 (VGG16) and EfficientNetB0 architectures, tailored explicitly for avocado ripeness classification in five classes: firm, breaking, ripe, overripe, and rotten. Each feature extracted is concatenated in an early fusion-based to classify the ripeness. The image dataset used for each avocado fruit was captured from six sides: front, back, left, right, bottom, and pedicel to provide a multi-channel input image in of a Convolution Neural Network (CNN). The results showed that the developed fine-tuned MCHDNN had an accuracy of 94.10% in training, 90.13% in validation, and 90.18% in testing. In addition, when considering individual class classification in the confusion matrix of the training set, it was found that the 'ripe' class had the highest accuracy of 94.58%, followed by the 'firm' and 'rotten' classes with 94.50% and 93.75% accuracy, respectively. Moreover, compared with the single-channel model, the fine-tuned MCHDNN model performs 7.70% more accurately than the fine-tuned VGG16 model and 7.77% more accurately than the fine-tuned EfficientNetB0 model.
Keywords:
avocado ripeness classification, convolutional neural networks, EfficientNetB0, hybrid deep neural networks, visual geometry groupDownloads
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