Convolutional Neural Network Ensemble Learning for Hyperspectral Imaging-based Blackberry Fruit Ripeness Detection in Uncontrolled Farm Environment

Fuente: arXiv
Gespeichert in:
Bibliographische Detailangaben
Hauptverfasser: Olisah, Chollette C., Trewhella, Ben, Li, Bo, Smith, Melvyn L., Winstone, Benjamin, Whitfield, E. Charles, Fernández, Felicidad Fernández, Duncalfe, Harriet
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2024
Schlagworte:
Online-Zugang:
Tags: Tag hinzufügen
Keine Tags, Fügen Sie den ersten Tag hinzu!
_version_ 1866929366691217408
author Olisah, Chollette C.
Trewhella, Ben
Li, Bo
Smith, Melvyn L.
Winstone, Benjamin
Whitfield, E. Charles
Fernández, Felicidad Fernández
Duncalfe, Harriet
author_facet Olisah, Chollette C.
Trewhella, Ben
Li, Bo
Smith, Melvyn L.
Winstone, Benjamin
Whitfield, E. Charles
Fernández, Felicidad Fernández
Duncalfe, Harriet
contents Fruit ripeness estimation models have for decades depended on spectral index features or colour-based features, such as mean, standard deviation, skewness, colour moments, and/or histograms for learning traits of fruit ripeness. Recently, few studies have explored the use of deep learning techniques to extract features from images of fruits with visible ripeness cues. However, the blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) fruit does not show obvious and reliable visible traits of ripeness when mature and therefore poses great difficulty to fruit pickers. The mature blackberry, to the human eye, is black before, during, and post-ripening. To address this engineering application challenge, this paper proposes a novel multi-input convolutional neural network (CNN) ensemble classifier for detecting subtle traits of ripeness in blackberry fruits. The multi-input CNN was created from a pre-trained visual geometry group 16-layer deep convolutional network (VGG16) model trained on the ImageNet dataset. The fully connected layers were optimized for learning traits of ripeness of mature blackberry fruits. The resulting model served as the base for building homogeneous ensemble learners that were ensemble using the stack generalization ensemble (SGE) framework. The input to the network is images acquired with a stereo sensor using visible and near-infrared (VIS-NIR) spectral filters at wavelengths of 700 nm and 770 nm. Through experiments, the proposed model achieved 95.1% accuracy on unseen sets and 90.2% accuracy with in-field conditions. Further experiments reveal that machine sensory is highly and positively correlated to human sensory over blackberry fruit skin texture.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2401_04748
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Convolutional Neural Network Ensemble Learning for Hyperspectral Imaging-based Blackberry Fruit Ripeness Detection in Uncontrolled Farm Environment
Olisah, Chollette C.
Trewhella, Ben
Li, Bo
Smith, Melvyn L.
Winstone, Benjamin
Whitfield, E. Charles
Fernández, Felicidad Fernández
Duncalfe, Harriet
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Fruit ripeness estimation models have for decades depended on spectral index features or colour-based features, such as mean, standard deviation, skewness, colour moments, and/or histograms for learning traits of fruit ripeness. Recently, few studies have explored the use of deep learning techniques to extract features from images of fruits with visible ripeness cues. However, the blackberry (Rubus fruticosus) fruit does not show obvious and reliable visible traits of ripeness when mature and therefore poses great difficulty to fruit pickers. The mature blackberry, to the human eye, is black before, during, and post-ripening. To address this engineering application challenge, this paper proposes a novel multi-input convolutional neural network (CNN) ensemble classifier for detecting subtle traits of ripeness in blackberry fruits. The multi-input CNN was created from a pre-trained visual geometry group 16-layer deep convolutional network (VGG16) model trained on the ImageNet dataset. The fully connected layers were optimized for learning traits of ripeness of mature blackberry fruits. The resulting model served as the base for building homogeneous ensemble learners that were ensemble using the stack generalization ensemble (SGE) framework. The input to the network is images acquired with a stereo sensor using visible and near-infrared (VIS-NIR) spectral filters at wavelengths of 700 nm and 770 nm. Through experiments, the proposed model achieved 95.1% accuracy on unseen sets and 90.2% accuracy with in-field conditions. Further experiments reveal that machine sensory is highly and positively correlated to human sensory over blackberry fruit skin texture.
title Convolutional Neural Network Ensemble Learning for Hyperspectral Imaging-based Blackberry Fruit Ripeness Detection in Uncontrolled Farm Environment
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.04748