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Image Processing as a Tool for Quality Assessment of Fruits in Bulk Shipping Bins.

P. Vaysse, G. Grenier, O. Lavialle, G. Henry, S. Khay-Ibbat, C. Germain and J.P. Da Costa

Book of Abstract.Information & technology for sustainable fruit & vegetable production, The 7th Fruit, Nut and Vegetable Production Engineering Symposium, 12-16 September 2005, Monpellier, France. Page 93

2005

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Image Processing as a Tool for Quality Assessment of Fruits in Bulk Shipping Bins. The early assessment of fruit quality requires new tools for size and colour measurement. Image analysis is appropriate for the estimation of fruit quality. In order to provide growers with early information o­n the quality assessmem at harvest time, this estimation should take place just before the fruit shipping bins are stored in cold storage.

The paper describes an image analysis tool dedicated to the detection of the fruits located o­n the top layer of a shipping bin. An active contour algorithm carries out this task. The geometrical model used is the circle and the active contours are computed o­n the gradient of luminance of a colour image. Our approach has been successfully applied to apples and we present a comparison between estimated fruit size and manual measurement.