“…Image processing and machine vision for the maturity level classification of fruits have been intensively investigated [ 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 ]. Most work to date has focused on maturity analysis of fruit that ripen in a uniform fashion, such as tomato [ 32 , 33 , 34 ], passion fruit [ 27 ], apricot [ 24 ], persimmon [ 35 ], blueberry [ 36 , 37 ], cherry [ 38 ], and date [ 39 ].…”