AlFloos: a balanced dataset for the sixth issue of the Saudi Arabian currency banknote*

Abstract

AbstractArtificial Intelligence, especially machine learning, is considered by many researchers the new electricity and an important building block of the fourth industrial revolution. Saudi Arabia is amongst the first nations worldwide to realize this importance and apply it in its school systems at various levels. This interest motivates researchers to create Arabic datasets for research and educational purposes, particularly with the popularity of English sources and the absence of Arabic sources. This study attempts to lessen this gap by creating for the first time ever a dataset for the sixth issue of the Saudi Arabian currency and analyzing it using the famous machine learning tools: Orange Data Mining, Google Teachable Machine, and Liner.ai, which require no coding. The importance of the study to the community is as follows: 1—It provides the first work ever to establish a balanced dataset for the sixth issue of the Saudi Arabian currency banknote, which contains images for the banknote denominations and the tabular data generated using deep learning. 2—It is the first scientific work that uses shallow machine learning and deep learning models to create good-performing models for classifying the sixth issue of the Saudi Arabian currency without coding. This work paves the way for researchers and those interested from various fields and backgrounds to develop machine learning applications to classify the sixth issue of the Saudi Arabian currency, especially in mobile phones or in microcontrollers, to inspire multiple IoT and Tiny machine learning applications like currency recognition and classification for special needs people, automatic counting and sorting of banknotes in banks and stores, and fake currency detection.