An AI-powered Electronic Nose System with Fingerprint Extraction for Aroma Recognition of Coffee Beans

Autor: Chung-Hong Lee, I-Te Chen, Hsin-Chang Yang, Yenming J. Chen
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Micromachines, Vol 13, Iss 8, p 1313 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2072-666X
DOI: 10.3390/mi13081313
Popis: Aroma and taste have long been considered important indicators of quality coffee. Specialty coffee, that is, coffee from a single estate, farm, or village in a coffee-growing region, in particular, has a unique aroma that reflects the coffee-producing region. In order to enable the traceability of coffee origin, in this study we have developed an e-nose system to discriminate the aroma of freshly roasted coffee in different production regions. In the case study, we employed the e-nose system to experiment with various machine learning models for recognizing several collected coffee beans such as coffees from Yirgacheffe and Kona. Additionally, our contribution also includes the development of a method to create an aromatic digital fingerprint of a specific coffee bean to identify its origin. The experimental results show that the developed e-nose system achieves good recognition performance for coffee aroma recognition. The extracted digital fingerprints have great potential to be stored in an extensible coffee aroma database similar to a comprehensive library of specific coffee bean aroma characteristics, for traceability and reconfirmation of their origin.
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