Scientific reports
May 9, 2024
Kiwifruit soft rot is highly contagious and causes serious economic loss. Therefore, early detection and elimination of soft rot are important for postharvest treatment and storage of kiwifruit. This study aims to accurately detect kiwifruit soft rot...
Spectrochimica acta. Part A, Molecular and biomolecular spectroscopy
Apr 24, 2024
In this work, visible and near-infrared 'point' (Vis-NIR) spectroscopy and hyperspectral imaging (Vis-NIR-HSI) techniques were applied on three different apple cultivars to compare their firmness prediction performances based on a large intra-variabi...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Apr 11, 2024
The maturity of fruits and vegetables such as tomatoes significantly impacts indicators of their quality, such as taste, nutritional value, and shelf life, making maturity determination vital in agricultural production and the food processing industr...
Scientific reports
Apr 8, 2024
The neural network method is a type of machine learning that has made significant advances over the past few years in a variety of fields, particularly text, speech, images, videos, etc. In areas where data is unstructured, traditional machine learni...
Environmental research
Apr 1, 2024
The current investigation reports the usage of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and artificial neural network (ANN), the two recognized machine learning techniques in modelling tetracycline (TC) adsorption onto Cynometra ramiflora fruit ...
Journal of food science
Apr 1, 2024
Mechanical bruise is one of the most crucial factors affecting the quality of pears, which has a huge influence on postharvest transportation, storage, and sale of pears. To rapidly detect early bruises of pears across different bruise types, hypersp...
Journal of the science of food and agriculture
Mar 25, 2024
BACKGROUND: The harvest of fruit can be significantly advanced with the thriving development of intelligent and automated robot technologies. Nevertheless, the picking success rate of tomato fruit still requires improvement as some fruits are unexpec...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Mar 16, 2024
In the context of Industry 4.0, one of the most significant challenges is enhancing efficiency in sectors like agriculture by using intelligent sensors and advanced computing. Specifically, the task of fruit detection and counting in orchards represe...
BMC plant biology
Feb 26, 2024
Subsistence farmers and global food security depend on sufficient food production, which aligns with the UN's "Zero Hunger," "Climate Action," and "Responsible Consumption and Production" sustainable development goals. In addition to already availabl...
Scientific reports
Feb 3, 2024
This paper proposes and executes an in-depth learning-based image processing approach for self-picking apples. The system includes a lightweight one-step detection network for fruit recognition. As well as computer vision to analyze the point class a...