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ArticleAdvanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)2026

Long-Tea-CLIP: An Expert-Level Multimodal AI Framework for Fine-Grained Green Tea Grading Across Five Sensory Dimensions.

Yanqun Xu, Zhengfang Xue, Qing Luo, Xu Liu, Yongquan Xu, Jing Huang, Xingcai Zhang, Xinyuan Zhang, Zhonghua Liu, Zisheng Luo

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Article in Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Yanqun XuDepartment of Food Science & Technology, School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Zhengfang XueCollege of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Qing LuoSchool of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Zhuhai, China.
Xu LiuChina Tea Science Society, Hangzhou, China.
Yongquan XuTea Research Institute Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Key Laboratory of Tea Biology and Resources Utilization, Ministry of Agriculture, Hangzhou, China.
Jing HuangCollege of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.
Xingcai ZhangDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
Xinyuan ZhangSchool of Intelligent Systems Science and Engineering, Jinan University, Zhuhai, China.
Zhonghua LiuNational Research Center of Engineering and Technology for Utilization of Botanical Functional Ingredients, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, China.
Zisheng LuoCollege of Biosystems Engineering and Food Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8232-9739

Funding

Innovative Research Group Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China 32272773Key Research and Development Program of Zhejiang Province 2025C01093National Key Research and Development Program of China 2023YFD1601500Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province 2023JJ40319
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Abstract

Traditional tea quality evaluation depends on human evaluators, limiting scalability, and consistency. To establish an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted framework for comprehensive evaluation of tea quality and detailed assessment of the tea consumption experience, this study aims to develop Long-Tea-CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training), a multimodal tea grading system that combines computer vision and chemoinformatics. It integrates five sensory evaluation dimensions for green tea, using separate submodels for appearance (ResNet-18), soup color (eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost)), aroma, infused leaf, and taste (multilayer perceptron (MLP)). A deep network derived from ResNet-18 integrates dry tea images with seven subdimensions of sensory comments to achieve a refined appearance "grading." We apply Tip-CLIP supervised MLP on feature data extraction from infused leaf and chemical data of aroma and taste to enhance accuracy. Submodel outputs are weighted into a unified framework to produce an overall score. Long-Tea-CLIP trained on 7763 image-text pairs from 38 Longjing tea varieties achieves 92% accuracy, indicating its potential to enhance tea quality control and market transparency.

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Artificial IntelligenceTeaHumansMultilayer PerceptronsOdorantsPlant LeavesTasteTeacomputer visionContrastive Language‐Image Pre‐traininggreen tea gradingmetabolomicsmultimodal AIsensory evaluation

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