A neural network approach to discrimination between defects and calyces in oranges

  • Salvatore Ingrassia
  • Enrico Commis

Abstract

The problem of automatic discrimination among pictures concerning either defects or calyces in oranges is approached. The method here proposed is based on a statistical analysis of the grey-levels and the shape of calyces in the pictures. Some suitable statistical indices are considered and the discriminant function is designed by means of a neural network on the basis of a suitable vector representation of the images. Numerical experiments give 5 misclassifications in a set of 52 images, where only three defects have been classified as calyces.
Published
1994-11-01
Section
Articoli