Region-Based Split Octonion Networks with Channel Attention Module for Tuna Classification

Abstract

Tuna fish is a popular food because of its nutritional value and taste. Demand for various species of tuna increases over time, necessitating the development of a system to sort tuna fish into distinct species in export sectors in order to accelerate the process. The work proposes an automated tuna classification system based on split octonion network. The images are initially preprocessed and divided into region images. Each region image is applied to a split octonion network with eleven layers. In addition, a split octonion channel attention module is presented, which is fed to the last two convolutional layers. The features from the three octonion networks are fused and applied to a series of dense layers. In the last layer, a softmax classifier is utilized for final classification. Results show that the proposed region-based split octonion network with attention module gives an accuracy of 98.01% on tuna database. The region-based tuna classification model is fine-tuned for the categorization of six species from QUT-FishBase dataset and Fish-Pak dataset. The system shows accuracies of 97.83% and 98.17% on QUT-FishBase and Fish-Pak datasets, respectively. The proposed methodology is also compared with existing approaches using a variety of evaluation criteria.