In agriculture science, automation increases the quality, economic growth and productivity of
the country. The export market and quality evaluation are affected by assorting of fruits and …

Appearance is a very important sensory quality attribute of fruits and vegetables, which can
influence not only their market value, consumer's preferences and choice but also their …

Fruit loading and packaging are still labor-intensive tasks during postharvest
commercialization, of which the key issues is to realize the real-time detection and …

Highlights•Deep learning detects different types of external defects without feature
engineering.•Fine tuning outperformed feature extraction in external defect detection.•The …

Plant disease is one of the primary causes of crop yield reduction. With the development of
computer vision and deep learning technology, autonomous detection of plant surface …

Artificial vision systems are powerful tools for the automatic inspection of fruits and
vegetables. Typical target applications of such systems include grading, quality estimation …

In this paper, a computer vision-based algorithm for golden delicious apple grading is
proposed which works in six steps. Non-apple pixels as background are firstly removed from …

Image processing has been proved to be effective tool for analysis in various fields and
applications. Agriculture sector where the parameters like canopy, yield, quality of product …

Background Bruising is a kind of subcutaneous tissue injury that does not involve the rupture
of fresh fruit epidermis. This damage can occur at any stage from picking, storage and …

Food Adulteration is a deceptive act of misleading food buyers for economic gain. It has
been a major concern due to its risk to public health, reduction of food quality or nutritional …