With large-scale production and the need for high-quality tomatoes to meet consumer and market standards criteria,have led to the need for an inline,accurate,reliable grading system during the post-harvest process.Thi...With large-scale production and the need for high-quality tomatoes to meet consumer and market standards criteria,have led to the need for an inline,accurate,reliable grading system during the post-harvest process.This study introduced a tomato grading machine vision system based on RGB images.The proposed system performed calyx and stalk scar detection at an average accuracy of 0.9515 for both defected and healthy tomatoes by histogramthresholding based on themean g-r value of these regions of interest.Defected regionswere detected by an RBF-SVMclassifier using the LAB color-space pixel values.Themodel achieved an overall accuracy of 0.989 upon validation.Four grading categories recognitionmodelswere developed based on color and texture features.The RBF-SVMoutperformed all the explored modelswith the highest accuracy of 0.9709 for healthy and defected category.However,the grading accuracy decreased as the number of grading categories increased.A combination of color and texture features achieved the highest accuracy in all the grading categories in image features evaluation.This proposed system can be used as an inline tomato sorting tool to ensure that quality standards are adhered to and maintained.展开更多
基金We thank the editor and the reviewers for assisting in improving the manuscript and acknowledge Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,China(KYGX201701)for funding the research.
文摘With large-scale production and the need for high-quality tomatoes to meet consumer and market standards criteria,have led to the need for an inline,accurate,reliable grading system during the post-harvest process.This study introduced a tomato grading machine vision system based on RGB images.The proposed system performed calyx and stalk scar detection at an average accuracy of 0.9515 for both defected and healthy tomatoes by histogramthresholding based on themean g-r value of these regions of interest.Defected regionswere detected by an RBF-SVMclassifier using the LAB color-space pixel values.Themodel achieved an overall accuracy of 0.989 upon validation.Four grading categories recognitionmodelswere developed based on color and texture features.The RBF-SVMoutperformed all the explored modelswith the highest accuracy of 0.9709 for healthy and defected category.However,the grading accuracy decreased as the number of grading categories increased.A combination of color and texture features achieved the highest accuracy in all the grading categories in image features evaluation.This proposed system can be used as an inline tomato sorting tool to ensure that quality standards are adhered to and maintained.
