<![CDATA[Insect pest attacks pose a serious threat that can potentially cause significant losses in agricultural production. Therefore, the effective recognition and control of insect pests are crucial for maintaining agricultural productivity and quality of yields. With the advancement of computer technology and artificial intelligence, computer technology can be utilized to automatically recognize images in object recognition, particularly for insect pest classification using the Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) method with the Xception architecture. CNN is one of the types of deep feed-forward artificial neural networks widely used in digital image analysis and can process data in the form of grid patterns. CNN consists of three types of layers: convolutional layer, pooling layer, and fully connected layer. The use of CNN in this research aims to facilitate the classification of insect pests. The CNN process involves stages of training, testing, and validation on insect pests to determine the classification of images of various insect pest species. This research utilizes 1363 image samples with 13 classes of insect pests. The training process of CNN involves several parameters such as batch size, number of epochs, learning rate, and optimizer. The experiment's results indicate that the best accuracy achieved by this model is 93.81% during the training phase and 81.75% during the validation phase. This demonstrates that the model successfully performs insect pest classification using the CNN method.]]>
