Improving the Accuracy of Deep-Learning Models for Coconut Maturity Classification Using Acoustic Signals
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Nowadays, the development of signal processing technology, advanced intelligent systems and deep learning have become commonplace in agricultural technology. One of the agricultural commodities that are widely available in the world is coconut. Unfortunately, the application of post-harvest agricultural technology is very minimal in coconut farming. So far, farmers have determined the maturity of coconuts by listening to the sound of the coconut being knocked so that it takes a lot of time to check the maturity level. This paper will discuss improving the accuracy of deep learning models in classifying coconuts based on acoustic signals. For the trial of the classification of the maturity level of coconuts, a deep learning method consisting of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) was used. And using an open access dataset consisting of samples used of 129 coconuts with three classification levels - premature, mature and overmature (Caladcad, 2023). In this paper, we propose an improvement in the deep learning model architecture with learning rate parameters of 0.0001, epoch 500, Batch-Normalization and Dropout 0.3 with the results of the coconut acoustic signal classification test having a data testing accuracy of 98.36% and an F1 Score of 99%. The results of this trial are better than the previous trial (Caladcad, 2024) with an accuracy of 97.42% and an F1 Score of 97.20%. and shows that the improvement of the deep learning combination method produces a more reliable coconut ripeness classification system, and is free from class bias
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