JOURNAL OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL RESEARCH SOCIETY, cilt.25, sa.2, ss.529-544, 2023 (SCI-Expanded)
Syrphidae is essential in pollinating many flowering plants and cereals
and is a family with high species diversity in the order Diptera. These
family species are also used in biodiversity and conservation studies.
This study proposes an image-based CNN model for easy, fast, and
accurate identification of Syrphidae species. Seven hundred twenty-seven
hoverfly images were used to train and test the developed deep-learning
model. Four hundred seventy-nine of these images were allocated to the
training set and two hundred forty-eight to the test dataset. There are a
total of 15 species in the dataset. With the CNN-based deep learning
model developed in this study, accuracy 0.96, precision 0.97, recall
0.96, and f-measure 0.96 values were obtained for the dataset. The
experimental results showed that the proposed CNN-based deep learning
model had a high success rate in distinguishing the Syrphidae species.