Deep Learning Based Tobacco Products Classification (Preprint)
BACKGROUND Various images and videos are uploaded every day or even every second on Instagram. These publicly available images are easily accessible as a result of uncontrolled Internet use by young people and children. Shared images include tobacco products and can be encouraging for young people and children when they are accessible. OBJECTIVE In this study, it is aimed to detect tobacco and tobacco products with various Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). METHODS A total of 1607 public images were collected from Instagram, and feature vectors were extracted with various CNNs, which proved to be successful in the competitions and CNN was determined to be proper for this problem. RESULTS MobileNet gave the highest results 99.1% as weighted average. The feature vector of the input images are extracted with CNNs and classified with the latest fully connected layer. CONCLUSIONS The classification of the tobacco products of 4 different classes was studied by using the networks and the classification performance rate was obtained as 100% for 322 test images via MobileNet. In this way, the content that is encouraging for children can be censored or filtered with a high accuracy rate and a secure Internet environment can be provided.