ENHANCING HERBAL PLANT LEAF IMAGE DETECTION ACCURACY THROUGH MOBILENET ARCHITECTURE OPTIMIZATION IN CNN
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https://doi.org/10.33480/jitk.v10i4.6498Keywords:
classification, CNN, deep learning, herbal plant, mobilenetv2Abstract
Herbal plants have various health benefits, but their type identification remains challenging for the general public. This study aims to improve the accuracy of herbal plant leaf classification using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based on MobileNetV2 architecture. To enhance model performance, various optimization techniques including fine-tuning, batch normalization, dropout, and learning rate scheduling were implemented. The experimental results showed that the proposed optimized model achieved an accuracy of 100%, significantly outperforming previous studies that used standard MobileNet with an accuracy of 86.7%. While these perfect results warrant additional validation with more diverse datasets to confirm generalizability, this study contributes to the development of a more accurate herbal plant classification system that is readily accessible to the general public. Future work should explore model performance under varying environmental conditions and with expanded plant species datasets.
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