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Original Articles

Identifying Potato Varieties Using Machine Vision and Artificial Neural Networks

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Pages 618-635 | Received 15 Nov 2014, Accepted 05 Apr 2015, Published online: 02 Dec 2015

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FIGURE 1 Samples of 10 varieties including; (1) Agria, (2) Savalan, (3) Florida, (4) Fontaneh, (5) Natasha, (6) Verona, (7) Karso, (8) Elody, (9) Satina, and (10) Emrad.

FIGURE 1 Samples of 10 varieties including; (1) Agria, (2) Savalan, (3) Florida, (4) Fontaneh, (5) Natasha, (6) Verona, (7) Karso, (8) Elody, (9) Satina, and (10) Emrad.

FIGURE 2 Flowchart of the image processing algorithm for classifying potato varieties.

FIGURE 2 Flowchart of the image processing algorithm for classifying potato varieties.

FIGURE 3 Image acquisition system.

FIGURE 3 Image acquisition system.

FIGURE 4 Results of pre-processing and segmentation operations; A: original image, B: uniformed background, C: segmented image, and D: boundary of potato.

FIGURE 4 Results of pre-processing and segmentation operations; A: original image, B: uniformed background, C: segmented image, and D: boundary of potato.

TABLE 1 Extracted color features of potato tubers

TABLE 2 Extracted texture features of potato tubers

FIGURE 5 Length and width of a sample potato extracted from binary image.

FIGURE 5 Length and width of a sample potato extracted from binary image.

TABLE 3 Extracted morphological features of potato tubers

FIGURE 6 A: External boundary of a potato with its centroid point, B: 1-D corresponding boundary signature.

FIGURE 6 A: External boundary of a potato with its centroid point, B: 1-D corresponding boundary signature.

TABLE 4 The top 16 selected color, textural, and morphological features for recognizing the 10 varieties of potatoes using stepwise discrimination (STEPDIS procedure of SPSS)

FIGURE 7 Topology of ANN for classification system of potato.

FIGURE 7 Topology of ANN for classification system of potato.

TABLE 5 Summary of texture parameters selection by stepwise PCA analysis

TABLE 6 Values of classification accuracy of DA method when testing

FIGURE 8 Learning curve by Levenberg-Marquardt learning pattern for epoch 226.

FIGURE 8 Learning curve by Levenberg-Marquardt learning pattern for epoch 226.

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