Abstract:Aiming to address the issues of high cost and subjectivity in the industrial grading of preserved egg gel quality, a multi-model feature fusion classification framework tailored for visible/near-infrared spectral data was proposed. Firstly, key spectral wavelengths were extracted by using the competitive adaptive reweighted sampling (CARS) algorithm, and a support vector machine (SVM) model was built, achieving a classification accuracy of 90.8%. Secondly, a one-dimensional efficient channel attention module (ECA_1D) was designed and integrated into a residual-connected one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1DCNN), resulting in the 1DCNN_ECA model, which achieved an accuracy of 92.8% by extracting deep spectral features. Additionally, a long short-term memory (LSTM) network was enhanced with a self-attention mechanism to construct the LSTM_Self model, effectively capturing long-range dependencies in spectral data and reaching an accuracy of 92.1%. These three feature representations, derived from the CARS algorithm, the 1DCNN_ECA model, and the LSTM_Self model, were further fused to develop the TripleFusion model, which achieved a grading accuracy of 95.0%, outperforming all dual-model fusion configurations. The results demonstrated that multi-model feature fusion can compensate for the limitations of individual models in feature representation, significantly improving classification performance. This work can effectively address the challenge of non-destructive grading of preserved egg gel quality and provide a novel and robust approach for visible/near-infrared spectral data analysis and modeling.