With consumer concerns increasing over food quality and safety, the food industry has
begun to pay much more attention to the development of rapid and reliable food-evaluation …

Fermentation of cocoa beans is a critical step for chocolate manufacturing, since
fermentation influences the development of flavour, affecting components such as free …

Seeds are of great importance to agricultural and industrial production. As such, rapid and
non-destructive detection methods must be developed for the industry and consumers to …

Highlights•Design a dual-camera based synchronised maize inspection machine.•Applied
an improved background removal method.•Propose a K-means-guided curvature method to …

Highlights•Deep learning and transfer learning CNNs are compared in barley varietal
classification.•Simplifying the CNN model has positive impact on classification results.•Only …

Wheat variety recognition and authentication are essential tasks of the quality assessment in
the grain chain industry, especially for seed testing and certification processes. Recognition …

Visual discrimination between barley varieties is difficult, and it requires training and
experience. The development of automatic methods based on computer vision could have …

The subject of this study was to investigate the possibility of using artificial neural networks
as a tool for classification, designed to identify apple orchard pests. The paper presents a …

This study introduces a comprehensive approach for classifying individual malting barley
kernels, involving dual-sided kernel imaging, a specifically designed image processing …

Grain in storage is exposed to a number of adverse factors, including extensive damage to
grain kernels caused by infestations of the granary weevil Sitophilus granarius. This pest …