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Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

Efficacy of the Image Augmentation Method using CNN Transfer Learning in Identification of Timber Defect

Author 1: Teo Hong Chun
Author 2: Ummi Rabaah Hashim
Author 3: Sabrina Ahmad
Author 4: Lizawati Salahuddin
Author 5: Ngo Hea Choon
Author 6: Kasturi Kanchymalay

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Digital Object Identifier (DOI) : 10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130514

Article Published in International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 13 Issue 5, 2022.

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Abstract: This paper discusses the efficacy of the data augmentation method deployed in many Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) algorithms for determining timber defect in four timber species from Malaysia. A sequence of morphological transformation, involving x-reflection and rotation, was executed in the timber defect augmentation dataset for aiding CNN model training and generating the finest CNN models which offer the best classification performance in determining timber defect. For further assessing the CNN algorithms’ classification performance, several deep learning hyperparameters were tried on the Merbau timber species by utilising epoch as well as learning rate. A comparison of the classification performance was then done between other timber classes, namely KSK, Meranti, and Rubberwood. According to the results, the ResNet50 algorithm, which has its basis in the transfer learning methodology, outclasses other CNN algorithms (ShuffleNet, AlexNet, MobileNetV2, NASNetMobile, and GoogLeNet) with the best classification accuracy of 94.59% using the data augmentation method. Furthermore, the outcomes indicate that utilising an augmentation methodology not just addresses the issue of a limited dataset but also enhances CNN classification output by 5.78% with the support of T-test that demonstrates a significant difference across all CNN algorithms except for Alexnet. Our study on hyperparameter optimisation by utilising learning rate as well as epoch is sufficient to infer that a greater number of epoch and learning rate does not deliver superior precision in CNN classification. The experimental findings suggest that the proposed methods improved CNN algorithms classification performance in identification of timber defect while tackling the imbalanced and limited dataset challenges.

Keywords: Convolutional neural network; deep learning; defect identification; image augmentation; transfer learning

Teo Hong Chun, Ummi Rabaah Hashim, Sabrina Ahmad, Lizawati Salahuddin, Ngo Hea Choon and Kasturi Kanchymalay, “Efficacy of the Image Augmentation Method using CNN Transfer Learning in Identification of Timber Defect” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 13(5), 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130514

@article{Chun2022,
title = {Efficacy of the Image Augmentation Method using CNN Transfer Learning in Identification of Timber Defect},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130514},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2022.0130514},
year = {2022},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {13},
number = {5},
author = {Teo Hong Chun and Ummi Rabaah Hashim and Sabrina Ahmad and Lizawati Salahuddin and Ngo Hea Choon and Kasturi Kanchymalay}
}


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