Indonesian Journal of Data and Science
Vol. 6 No. 3 (2025): Indonesian Journal of Data and Science

Transfer Learning with VGG-16 for Image Classification of Endemic Papuan Orchids

Iftinan Mardhiyyah (Universitas Papua)
Christian D. Suhendra (Universitas Papua)
Agustina Y. S. Arobaya (Universitas Papua)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Dec 2025

Abstract

This study applies a transfer-learning approach using the VGG16 architecture to classify three Papuan endemic orchid species—Dendrobium spectabile, Dendrobium lineale, and Dendrobium mirbelianum. A total of 810 field-photographed images were collected, followed by preprocessing and data augmentation to enhance data diversity. The VGG16 model pretrained on ImageNet was used as a fixed feature extractor by freezing its convolutional layers and removing the fully connected layers, while a custom classification head was added to distinguish among the three species. Experimental results demonstrated a validation accuracy of 94.44% and a macro-average F1-score of 0.94, confirming the robustness of the model under limited-data conditions. These findings suggest that transfer learning using VGG16 can effectively support orchid species recognition and serve as a foundation for developing AI-based biodiversity monitoring and conservation systems in Indonesia

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Journal Info

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ijodas

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Subject

Computer Science & IT Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Mathematics

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