Comparative Analysis of CNN Architectures (ResNet152V2, InceptionV3, and Xception) in Animal Species Classification

Authors

  • Ferry Khusnil Arief Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Lampung
  • Nurul Kholidiah Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Lampung
  • Rifki Mistahul Munir Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Lampung
  • Rahma Yunita Universitas Nahdlatul Ulama Lampung

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55927/marcopolo.v3i7.84

Keywords:

Animal Classification, Convolutional Neural Network, Transfer Learning, InceptionV3, Comparative Analysis

Abstract

This research contributes to the field of computer vision by identifying the most effective Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture for animal species classification, a fundamental task to support biodiversity conservation. A comparative analysis was conducted on three pre-trained models: ResNet152V2, InceptionV3, and Xception. The method used was transfer learning on the "Animals-10" dataset with a two-stage training strategy: feature extraction followed by fine-tuning. The results show that the InceptionV3 and Xception architectures achieved the highest performance with a validation accuracy of 97.30%. Consequently, InceptionV3 is recommended as the most optimal model due to its lowest loss value, indicating the best generalization ability for similar tasks.

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2025-08-01

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