Description of tea quality using deep learning and multi-sensor feature fusion

To address the problem of the lack of rapid discrimination technology for comprehensive evaluation of product quality and grade in the field of tea quality control, this study uses near-infrared spectroscopy, electronic eye, electronic tongue, and electronic nose technology to sense the external and internal quality sensing characteristics of tea leaves, and realizes comprehensive evaluation of four quality factors such as "color, aroma, taste and shape" of tea leaves through cross-sensor multimodal quality characteristics data fusion. For the first time, a comprehensive method for assessing the grade quality of tea based on deep learning algorithms combining crosssensor multimodal fusion features such as color, texture, shape, optical, electronic tongue, and electronic nose is established. The results showed that the constructed deep convolutional neural network (CNN) classification model had a misclassification rate of only 0.86% in the prediction set, which was better than the modeling results based on traditional classification methods. This study reveals that the CNN algorithm can effectively evaluate the quality grade of tea samples and realize the digital evaluation of multiple evaluation factors of tea sensory quality.