Iranian Journal of Biosystem Engineering

Iranian Journal of Biosystem Engineering

Separation of touching almonds and their quality classification by combining image processing and artificial neural networks techniques

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Nima Teimouri 1
Mahmoud Omid 2
Kaveh Mollazade 3
Ali Rajabipour 2
1 Phd Student, Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering, University of Tehran
2 Professor, Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering, University of Tehran
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Biosystems Engineering, University of Kurdistan
10.22059/ijbse.2015.57341
Abstract
The quality evaluation of agricultural products is one of the key factors in promoting their quality. In this study, a method based on combined image processing technique and artificial neural network was presented. Separation of touching almonds under different positions is a very important step in design of grading devices. In this study, an image processing algorithm based on extracting critical points in the image of almonds and drawing segmentation lines between them is presented. In the next step, the feature vector which includes 6 shape features, 36 color features and 36 texture features was composed. PCA method was used to reduce the dimension of the feature vector. The quality classification of almond in different classes was carried out by artificial neural networks (ANNs). Among different ANN structures, the 18-7-7-4 topology was the most optimum classifier (total accuracy was obtained 96.92%).
Keywords
Touching almond
Quality classification
ANNs
Color features
Texture features
Subjects
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Iranian Journal of Biosystem Engineering
Volume 46, Issue 4 - Serial Number 4
Winter 2016
Pages 355-362

  • Receive Date 06 April 2015
  • Revise Date 03 May 2016
  • Accept Date 21 April 2015