IDL - International Digital Library Of Technology & Research Volume 1, Issue 4,April 2017
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Ripeness Evaluation of Mango using Image Processing Sharadha shree 1 , Dr. Chandrappa D.N 2 1 2
Student ,M.Tech, DEC, GMIT Davangere.
Professor and HOD, Dept. Electronics Engineering, GM IT DA VANGERE.
1. INTRODUCTION
ABSTRACT Abstract— Mangoes are delicious seasonal fruits
Agriculture is one of the largest economic sector and it
grown in the tropics. They are harvested from i ts
plays a major role in the development of our country. Th e
grove when matured enough for the market. They do
ever-increasing population demands for higher quality of
not mature uniforml y in trees but stage by stage.
mangoes with good appearance. There is a need for the
Most farmers use manual experts for ri pening
development of accurate, fast and focused quality
evaluati on of the mang oes which is ti me consuming,
determination of mangoes.
inconsistent and inaccurate . To avoi d manual effort,
Harvesting of mangoes is performed in several steps like
an
is
cutting of fruits from the farm, washing, sorting, grading,
introduced in this paper. This includes preprocessing,
packing, transporting and finally storing. Out of these
Segmentation, Feature extraction and classification.
sorting and grading are major processing tasks associated
Here 24 color features are extracted from the mang o
for preserving the quality of mangoes.
image. Classifying the mango into two di fferent
Sorting of mangoes is done based on appearance of fru its,
classes according to their maturity level using k-NN
whereas grading is done based on the overall quality
Classifier and this proposed system resulted i n the
features of fruits by considering a number of attributes
accuracy of about 97% in evaluati on of ri peness of
like shape, size, color and texture etc.
Mangoes.
Classification is necessary for the quality evaluation of
automated
Computer
vision
techni que
mangoes. Fruit industry for its excellent trading purpose goes for highly selective ones in quality and standard. It
General Terms Quality Inspection, Feature Extraction, Color Feature.
demands the suppliers and the distributors the fruits of high standards of quality, package and presentation. So there is a increasing need to supply quality fruits within a
Keywords
short period of time has development of Co mputer Vis ion Feature
Extraction
Keywords—Segmentati on,
Feature Extraction, k-NN classifier.
Techniques to improve the quality. In present scenario, sorting and grading of fruit according to maturity level are performed manually before transportation. This manual sorting by visual inspection is labour intensive, time consuming and
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