Rapid Assessment of Tomato Ripeness Using Visible/Near-Infrared Spectroscopy and Machine Vision

Autor: Liu Xiulin, Wu Yuanyuan, Huishan Lu, Fujie Wang
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Food Analytical Methods. 10:1721-1726
ISSN: 1936-976X
1936-9751
DOI: 10.1007/s12161-016-0734-9
Popis: A non-destructive assessment using visible/near-infrared spectroscopy and machine vision has been investigated for measuring tomato ripeness. Relationship between spectral wavelengths and green grayscale value was evaluated by application of chemometrics techniques based on partial least squares (PLS) regression. The tomatoes were divided randomly into two groups: 170 fruits for calibration and 71 for prediction. An accurate estimation, measured with a correlation coefficient of 0.992 and root mean square errors of prediction (RMSEP) of 9.92, was obtained when using the developed PLS model built with 550–750 nm spectral range. The accuracies of calibration and validation models based on data measured in this band were 90.93 and 90.05%. The prediction accuracy for 150 external independent samples was 90.67%. The results show that it is possible to realize detection standardization of tomato maturity based on only visible spectroscopy (550–750 nm) and machine vision technologies. This detection method does not depend on a visual grading or other maturity indices as a reference. It highlights the potential of the method to determine tomato ripeness and the optimum harvest time.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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