Simulation Study of EfficientNetB0 Performance for Cocoa Pod Disease Classification Using Literature Based Synthetic Data
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https://doi.org/10.55642/eatij.v7i03.1335Keywords:
EfficientNetB0, cocoa pod disease, transfer learning, synthetic data, simulation studyAbstract
Automated detection of cocoa (Theobroma cacao) pod diseases such as black pod, pod borer infestation, and frosty pod rot is critical for safeguarding yield, yet the development of deep-learning classifiers is frequently constrained by the scarcity of curated, well-balanced image datasets. This study presents a controlled simulation that evaluates the expected performance envelope of an EfficientNetB0 classifier under idealized, literature-grounded conditions before field data collection is undertaken. Rather than asserting empirical field results, a synthetic dataset is constructed whose per-class feature distributions (color, texture, and lesion morphology) are parameterized from values reported across six core references. A balanced corpus of 3,000 synthetic images spanning four classes (healthy, black pod, pod borer, frosty pod) was generated and partitioned using a stratified 70/15/15 split. EfficientNetB0, initialized with ImageNet weights and fine-tuned with standard augmentation, achieved a simulated test accuracy of 93.8%, a macro-averaged F1-score of 0.926, and balanced per-class precision and recall in the 0.90-0.95 range. The confusion matrix indicates that the principal source of error is morphological overlap between pod borer and frosty pod presentations. The results delineate a plausible upper-bound performance band to guide sample-size planning, augmentation strategy, and architecture selection for a subsequent field study. All reported figures are framed explicitly as simulation outputs.
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