ENHANCED FLOWER IMAGE CLASSIFICATION USING MOBILENETV2 WITH OPTIMIZED PERFORMANCE

Flower classification is an essential activity in multiple fields, including healthcare, cosmetics, agriculture, and environmental monitoring. Deep learning has achieved notable success in intricate picture categorization problems, especially through the utilization of lightweight convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures like MobileNet and MobileNetV2. This work assesses and contrasts the efficacy of four prevalent optimizers Adam, RMSProp, SGD, and Nadam on datasets of flower and herbal leaf images. Experiments were performed using a uniform training configuration on a CPU-based system devoid of GPU acceleration, evaluating both model efficacy and computational efficiency. Evaluation criteria including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-score, and loss were utilised, augmented by confusion matrix analysis. The findings indicate that MobileNetV2 regularly surpasses the baseline MobileNet, with RMSProp attaining the highest accuracy (99.52%) and the lowest loss (0.0126) on the herbal dataset. In the flower dataset, RMSProp achieved the highest accuracy of 96.67%. Moreover, MobileNetV2 necessitated increased memory and extended training duration, while delivering superior classification performance overall. These findings underscore the significance of optimizer selection and model architecture in lightweight deep learning applications, especially for deployment on resource-limited devices.