Multi-Class Mangrove Classification Using Transfer Learning with MobileNet-V3 on Multi-Organ Images

Ari  Sudrajat; Riri Damayanti Apnena; Ayu Hendrati Rahayu; Musab Iqtait

doi:10.52436/1.jutif.2025.6.3.4683

Authors

Ari Sudrajat Informatics Engineering, Politeknik TEDC, Indonesia
Riri Damayanti Apnena Industrial Mechanics and Design, Politeknik TEDC, Indonesia
Ayu Hendrati Rahayu Medical Records and Health Information, Politeknik TEDC, Indonesia
Musab Iqtait Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, Zarqa University, Jordan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52436/1.jutif.2025.6.3.4683

Keywords:

Convolutional Neural Networks, Deep Learning, Mangrove Species, MobileNet-V3, Transfer Learning

Abstract

Mangrove ecosystems are important for coastal protection, biodiversity conservation, and climate change mitigation. However, the accurate identification of mangrove species is very challenging due to the morphological similarities between different species, especially when the species are analyzed based on limited plant organs like leaves or stems. Manual identification methods have traditionally been time-consuming, error-prone, and require expert knowledge. Addressing these issues, this research suggests an automatic classification system based on Deep Learning techniques by leveraging the MobileNet-V3 architecture. The system is based on images of three different plant organs—leaves, stems, and seeds—of five mangrove species: Avicennia marina, Avicennia officinalis, Avicennia rumphiana, Rhizophora mucronata, and Sonneratia alba. Data augmentation techniques such as rotation, shifting, and flipping, as well as sharpness enhancement, were applied in the preprocessing step to enhance data variability and ease model generalization. The model was trained with a carefully selected set of hyperparameters and extensively validated through training and testing steps. The experiment results demonstrated outstanding performance with a training accuracy of 99.88% and perfect precision, recall, and F1-score values of 100%. Furthermore, testing with unseen data confirmed the robustness of the model since all test samples were correctly identified. This research concludes that the MobileNet-V3 architecture offers an effective approach to mangrove species classification and suggests that future work should involve larger and more varied datasets, real-world field environments, and the investigation of ensemble models to further extend the adaptability and scalability of mangrove monitoring systems.

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