Analysis of Color Space Transformations on MobileNetV2 Performance for Image Classification

This study analyzes the effect of color space transformation on the performance of MobileNetV2 for rice leaf disease classification using RGB, HSV, CIELab, and their combinations. The RGB color space is used as the baseline representation, while HSV and CIELab are applied to provide alternative representations of color information. In addition, a dual-stream architecture is employed to combine different color spaces for feature extraction. The results show that the choice of color space influences classification performance. In the single color-space scenario, RGB achieves the highest accuracy of 91.42%, while in the combined scenario, the RGB+CIELab model achieves the best performance with an accuracy of 97.00%. These findings suggest that the use of multiple color spaces can provide richer feature representations and may improve classification performance. Furthermore, the results indicate that optimizing input representation plays an important role in improving model performance, particularly when using lightweight architectures such as MobileNetV2. This study shows that color space transformation can improve classification performance in the rice leaf disease dataset used in this study.