Succulent Plant Image Classification Based on Lightweight GoogLeNet with CBAM Attention Mechanism

Aiming at the model overfitting problem caused by limited datasets and visual complexity in succulent plant classification tasks, this study proposes a GoogLeNet classification method based on lightweighting and improving the Convolutional Block attention module (CBAM). Meanwhile, batch normalizatio...

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Main Authors: Xingyu Tong, Zhihong Liang, Fangrong Liu
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-03-01
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description Aiming at the model overfitting problem caused by limited datasets and visual complexity in succulent plant classification tasks, this study proposes a GoogLeNet classification method based on lightweighting and improving the Convolutional Block attention module (CBAM). Meanwhile, batch normalization (BN) operations are added after each convolutional layer to accelerate network convergence and improve model stability. In addition, the model’s ability to extract key features is enhanced by integrating the channel and spatial attention mechanisms of the CBAM attention module. Experimental results show that the improved lightweight GoogLeNet achieves 99.4% classification accuracy on the validation set, effectively mitigates the overfitting problem, and maintains high computational efficiency in resource-constrained environments. The model parameters and computational complexity are significantly reduced by streamlining the Inception modules from nine to seven and introducing depth-separable convolution. To further validate the model robustness, this study extends the dataset via data augmentation methods, and the experiments show that the improved model still maintains stable performance in small dataset environments, demonstrating its advantages in data-scarce scenarios. This study provides an effective solution for the task of succulent plant classification, which has significant application value. Future research will focus on further optimization of the model structure to continuously improve the classification accuracy and robustness.
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spelling doaj-art-cfbd1646d22a45ef8879945c64e5b8442025-08-20T02:17:00ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172025-03-01157373010.3390/app15073730Succulent Plant Image Classification Based on Lightweight GoogLeNet with CBAM Attention MechanismXingyu Tong0Zhihong Liang1Fangrong Liu2College of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, ChinaCollege of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, ChinaCollege of Big Data and Intelligent Engineering, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming 650224, ChinaAiming at the model overfitting problem caused by limited datasets and visual complexity in succulent plant classification tasks, this study proposes a GoogLeNet classification method based on lightweighting and improving the Convolutional Block attention module (CBAM). Meanwhile, batch normalization (BN) operations are added after each convolutional layer to accelerate network convergence and improve model stability. In addition, the model’s ability to extract key features is enhanced by integrating the channel and spatial attention mechanisms of the CBAM attention module. Experimental results show that the improved lightweight GoogLeNet achieves 99.4% classification accuracy on the validation set, effectively mitigates the overfitting problem, and maintains high computational efficiency in resource-constrained environments. The model parameters and computational complexity are significantly reduced by streamlining the Inception modules from nine to seven and introducing depth-separable convolution. To further validate the model robustness, this study extends the dataset via data augmentation methods, and the experiments show that the improved model still maintains stable performance in small dataset environments, demonstrating its advantages in data-scarce scenarios. This study provides an effective solution for the task of succulent plant classification, which has significant application value. Future research will focus on further optimization of the model structure to continuously improve the classification accuracy and robustness.https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/7/3730succulentslightweightingCBAM attention mechanismGoogLeNetclassification and recognition
spellingShingle Xingyu Tong
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Succulent Plant Image Classification Based on Lightweight GoogLeNet with CBAM Attention Mechanism
Applied Sciences
succulents
lightweighting
CBAM attention mechanism
GoogLeNet
classification and recognition
title Succulent Plant Image Classification Based on Lightweight GoogLeNet with CBAM Attention Mechanism
title_full Succulent Plant Image Classification Based on Lightweight GoogLeNet with CBAM Attention Mechanism
title_fullStr Succulent Plant Image Classification Based on Lightweight GoogLeNet with CBAM Attention Mechanism
title_full_unstemmed Succulent Plant Image Classification Based on Lightweight GoogLeNet with CBAM Attention Mechanism
title_short Succulent Plant Image Classification Based on Lightweight GoogLeNet with CBAM Attention Mechanism
title_sort succulent plant image classification based on lightweight googlenet with cbam attention mechanism
topic succulents
lightweighting
CBAM attention mechanism
GoogLeNet
classification and recognition
url https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15/7/3730
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