Assessment of External Properties for Identifying Banana Fruit Maturity Stages Using Optical Imaging Techniques

Abstract

The maturity stage of bananas has a considerable influence on the fruit postharvest quality and the shelf life. In this study, an optical imaging based method was formulated to assess the importance of different external properties on the identification of four successive banana maturity stages. External optical properties, including the peel color and the local textural and local shape information, were extracted from the stalk, middle and tip of the bananas. Specifically, the peel color attributes were calculated from individual channels in the hue-saturation-value (HSV), the International Commission on Illumination (CIE) L*a*b* and the CIE L*ch color spaces; the textural information was encoded using a local binary pattern with uniform patterns (UP-LBP); and the local shape features were described by histogram of oriented gradients (HOG). Three classifiers based on the naïve Bayes (NB), linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and support vector machine (SVM) algorithms were adopted to evaluate the performance of identifying banana fruit maturity stages using the different optical appearance features. The experimental results demonstrate that overall identification accuracies of 99.2%, 100% and 99.2% were achieved using color appearance features with the NB, LDA and SVM classifiers, respectively; overall accuracies of 92.6%, 86.8% and 93.4% were obtained using local textural features for the three classifiers, respectively; and overall accuracies of only 84.3%, 83.5% and 82.6% were obtained using local shape features with the three classifiers, respectively. Compared to the complicated calculation of both the local textural and local shape properties, the simplicity and high accuracy of the peel color property make it more appropriate for identifying banana fruit maturity stages using optical imaging techniques.

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