Generating synthetic data on agricultural crops with DCGAN

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) is one of the deep learning architectures that is very effective for handling images. CNN is able to automatically extract important features from images, making it very suitable for various image processing tasks such as classification, object detection, and segmentation. However, even though CNN has great capabilities, one important thing to note is the amount of data. A considerable amount of data is needed for the CNN model to work optimally and avoid overfitting. To handle this problem, a synthetic data augmentation process is used using the Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN) method. The generator network contained in the DCGAN model has a latent space dimension input whose value can vary. The size of the latent space dimension is very important in enabling data or image reconstruction during the training process. This study tested latent space dimension values on a corn plant dataset totaling 9159. The latent space values used in this experiment were 64, 100, and 128. In addition, this study also tested different batch sizes, namely 64 and 128. The model was evaluated using Fre'chet Inception Distance (FID) and Inception Score (IS). From the evaluation results, the best score on FID was 0.018001 and IS 1.239421. The greater the latent space value, the more realistic and clear the image results will be. Likewise, the smaller the batch size value, the more realistic and clear the image results.