Olive oil classification with Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) spectra using 1-dimensional convolutional neural network and dual convolution structure model.

Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) spectroscopy is widely used for the analysis and classification of olive oil. This paper proposes the classification of LIF data using a specific 1-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) model, which does not require pre-processing steps such as normalisation or denoising and can be flexibly applied to massive data. However, by adding a dual convolution structure (Dual-conv) to the model, the features of the 1-dimensional spectra are more scattered within one convolution-pooling process; thus, the classification effects are improved. The models were validated through an olive oil classification experiment which contained a total of 72,000 sets of LIF spectra data, and the classification accuracy rate reached ∼99.69%. Additionally, a common classification approach, the support vector machine (SVM), was utilised for the comparison of the results. The results show that the neural networks perform better than the SVM. The Dual-conv model structure has a faster convergence speed and higher evaluation parameters than those of the 1D-CNN in the same period of iterations, without increasing the data dimension.