Background Fruits are vulnerable to mechanical damages and physiological disorders
caused by the static and dynamic forces acting on them during transportation and abiotic …

Highlights•Defects affecting horticultural products and detection challenges are
summarised.•Machine learning's role in addressing issues of fruit defect detection is …

Background Bruising is the most common type of mechanical damage, which is inevitable
along the postharvest chain, including harvesting, sorting, packaging and so on. It's the …

This paper presented an approach using a pendulum method to measure bruise damage of
apples to overcome the limitation of the drop test on impact control on a specific fruit zone …

Spectroscopy data are useful for modelling biological systems such as predicting quality
parameters of horticultural products. However, using the wide spectrum of wavelengths is …

Today in the agricultural industry, many defects affect production efficiency; this paper aims
to show how the combination of machine vision (MV) and image processing (IP) helps to …

Bruise damage resulting from excessive impact and compression forces between the point
of harvest and consumption is a major quality problem in fresh fruit marketing. This study …

The mechanical damage of fresh fruit under random vibration during postharvest
transportation is a major problem in agricultural industry. This paper investigated the …

Fresh fruits like bananas are very susceptible to mechanical damage during postharvest
handling which can result in a substantial decline in quality. The study aims to evaluate the …

Background A deep understanding of the motion and the intensities of forces endured by the
fruits overtime during the various handling processes is necessary if improvements are to be …