Quality Inspection of Fruits and Vegetables using Colour Sorting in Machine Vision System: A review

Anish, Potnuru Sai

doi:10.26808/rs.ed.i7v6.06

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“…Among these techniques, computer vision has become a standard solution for food inspection [3,4] because it is one of the most economic and fastest options available [5]. Computer vision can be used to assess external appearance factors such as the the size, shape, color, and texture [6].…”

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Fast 3D Rotation Estimation of Fruits Using Spheroid Models

Albiol

Merás³

2021

Sensors

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Automated fruit inspection using cameras involves the analysis of a collection of views of the same fruit obtained by rotating a fruit while it is transported. Conventionally, each view is analyzed independently. However, in order to get a global score of the fruit quality, it is necessary to match the defects between adjacent views to prevent counting them more than once and assert that the whole surface has been examined. To accomplish this goal, this paper estimates the 3D rotation undergone by the fruit using a single camera. A 3D model of the fruit geometry is needed to estimate the rotation. This paper proposes to model the fruit shape as a 3D spheroid. The spheroid size and pose in each view is estimated from the silhouettes of all views. Once the geometric model has been fitted, a single 3D rotation for each view transition is estimated. Once all rotations have been estimated, it is possible to use them to propagate defects to neighbor views or to even build a topographic map of the whole fruit surface, thus opening the possibility to analyze a single image (the map) instead of a collection of individual views. A large effort was made to make this method as fast as possible. Execution times are under 0.5 ms to estimate each 3D rotation on a standard I7 CPU using a single core.

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