scholarly journals Estimation of strawberry firmness using hyperspectral imaging: a comparison of regression models

Author(s):  
Binu Devassy ◽  
Sony George

Firmness is one of the most important quality measures of strawberries, and is related to other aspects of the fruit, such as flavour, ripeness and internal characteristics. The most popular method for measuring firmness is puncturing with a penetrometer, which is destructive and time-consuming. In the present study, we make an attempt to predict the firmness of strawberries in a fast, non-destructive and non-contact way using hyperspectral imaging (HSI) and data analysis with various regression techniques. The primary goal of this research is to investigate and compare the firmness prediction capability of seven prominent regression techniques. We have performed HSI data acquisition of 150 strawberries and optimised seven regression models using the spectral information to predict strawberry firmness. These models are linear, ridge, lasso, k-neighbours, random forest, support vector and partial least square regression. The res ults show that HSI data with regression models has the potential to predict firmness in a rapid, non-destructive manner. Out of these seven regression models, the k-neighbours regression model outperformed all other methods with a standard error of prediction of 0.14, which is better than that of the state-of-the-art results.

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 641
Author(s):  
Gopal Ramdas Mahajan ◽  
Bappa Das ◽  
Dayesh Murgaokar ◽  
Ittai Herrmann ◽  
Katja Berger ◽  
...  

Conventional methods of plant nutrient estimation for nutrient management need a huge number of leaf or tissue samples and extensive chemical analysis, which is time-consuming and expensive. Remote sensing is a viable tool to estimate the plant’s nutritional status to determine the appropriate amounts of fertilizer inputs. The aim of the study was to use remote sensing to characterize the foliar nutrient status of mango through the development of spectral indices, multivariate analysis, chemometrics, and machine learning modeling of the spectral data. A spectral database within the 350–1050 nm wavelength range of the leaf samples and leaf nutrients were analyzed for the development of spectral indices and multivariate model development. The normalized difference and ratio spectral indices and multivariate models–partial least square regression (PLSR), principal component regression, and support vector regression (SVR) were ineffective in predicting any of the leaf nutrients. An approach of using PLSR-combined machine learning models was found to be the best to predict most of the nutrients. Based on the independent validation performance and summed ranks, the best performing models were cubist (R2 ≥ 0.91, the ratio of performance to deviation (RPD) ≥ 3.3, and the ratio of performance to interquartile distance (RPIQ) ≥ 3.71) for nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc, SVR (R2 ≥ 0.88, RPD ≥ 2.73, RPIQ ≥ 3.31) for calcium, iron, copper, boron, and elastic net (R2 ≥ 0.95, RPD ≥ 4.47, RPIQ ≥ 6.11) for magnesium and sulfur. The results of the study revealed the potential of using hyperspectral remote sensing data for non-destructive estimation of mango leaf macro- and micro-nutrients. The developed approach is suggested to be employed within operational retrieval workflows for precision management of mango orchard nutrients.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 618
Author(s):  
Tanvir Tazul Islam ◽  
Md Sajid Ahmed ◽  
Md Hassanuzzaman ◽  
Syed Athar Bin Amir ◽  
Tanzilur Rahman

Diabetes is a chronic illness that affects millions of people worldwide and requires regular monitoring of a patient’s blood glucose level. Currently, blood glucose is monitored by a minimally invasive process where a small droplet of blood is extracted and passed to a glucometer—however, this process is uncomfortable for the patient. In this paper, a smartphone video-based noninvasive technique is proposed for the quantitative estimation of glucose levels in the blood. The videos are collected steadily from the tip of the subject’s finger using smartphone cameras and subsequently converted into a Photoplethysmography (PPG) signal. A Gaussian filter is applied on top of the Asymmetric Least Square (ALS) method to remove high-frequency noise, optical noise, and motion interference from the raw PPG signal. These preprocessed signals are then used for extracting signal features such as systolic and diastolic peaks, the time differences between consecutive peaks (DelT), first derivative, and second derivative peaks. Finally, the features are fed into Principal Component Regression (PCR), Partial Least Square Regression (PLS), Support Vector Regression (SVR) and Random Forest Regression (RFR) models for the prediction of glucose level. Out of the four statistical learning techniques used, the PLS model, when applied to an unbiased dataset, has the lowest standard error of prediction (SEP) at 17.02 mg/dL.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wan Sieng Yeo

Abstract The textile bleaching process uses a hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) solution in alkali pH associated with high temperature is the commonly used bleaching procedure in cotton fabric manufacture. The purpose of the bleaching process is to remove the natural colour from cotton to obtain a permanent white colour before dyeing or shape matching. Normally, the visual ratings of whiteness on the cotton are measured by the whiteness index (WI). Notice that lesser research study is focusing on chemical predictive modelling of the WI of cotton fabric than its experimental study. Predictive analytics using predictive modelling can forecast the outcomes that can lead to better-informed cotton quality assurance and control decisions. Up to date, limited study applying least square support vector regression (LSSVR) based model in the textile domain. Hence, the present study was aimed to develop the LSSVR-based model, namely multi-output LSSVR (MLSSVR) using bleaching process variables to predict the WI of cotton. The predictive accuracy of the MLSSVR model is measured by root mean square error (RMSE), mean absolute error (MAE), and the coefficient of determination (R2), and its results are compared with other regression models including partial least square regression, predictive fuzzy model, locally weighted partial least square regression and locally weighted kernel partial least square regression. The results indicate that the MLSSVR model performed better than other models in predicting the WI as it has 60–1209% lower values of RMSE and MAE as well as it provided the highest R2 values which are up to 0.9985.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Antonia Frey ◽  
Philipp Baumann ◽  
Helge Aasen ◽  
Bruno Studer ◽  
Roland Kölliker

Abstract Background Grassland-based ruminant livestock production provides a sustainable alternative to intensive production systems relying on concentrated feeds. However, grassland-based roughage often lacks the energy content required to meet the productivity potential of modern livestock breeds. Forage legumes, such as red clover, with increased starch content could partly replace maize and cereal supplements. However, breeding for increased starch content requires efficient phenotyping methods. This study is unique in evaluating a non-destructive hyperspectral imaging approach to estimate leaf starch content in red clover for enabling efficient development of high starch red clover genotypes.Results We assessed prediction performance of partial least square regression models (PLSR) and validated model performance with an independent test set. Starch content of the training set ranged from 0.1 to 120.3 mg g -1 DW. The best cross-validated PLSR model explained 56% of the measured variation and yielded a root mean square error (RMSE) of 17 mg g -1 DW. Model performance decreased when applied to the independent test set (RMSE = 29 mg g -1 DW, R 2 = 0.36). Different filtering methods did not increase model performance.Conclusion The non-destructive spectral method presented here, provides a tool to detect large differences in leaf starch content of red clover. Breeding material can be sampled and selected according to their starch content without destroying the plant.


Author(s):  
Eiman Tamah Alshammari

This paper motivation is to find the most accurate technique to predict the ground level ozone at Al Jahra station, Kuwait. The data on the meteorological variables (air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation, direction and speed of wind) and concentration of seven pollutants of environment (SO2, NO2, NO, CO2, CO, NMHC, and CH4) were applied to forecast the ozone concentration in atmosphere. In this report, three methods (PLS regression, support vector machine (SVM), and multiple least-square regression) were used to predict ground-level ozone. We used Fifteen parameters to evaluate the performance of methods. Multiple least-square regression, partial least square regression (PLS regression), and SVM using linear and radial kernels were the best performers with MAE (mean absolute error) of 9.17x 10-03, 9.72 x 10-03, 9.64 x 10-03, and 9.12 x 10-03, respectively. SVM with polynomial kernel had MAE of 5.46 x 10-02. These results show that these methods could be used to predict ground-level ozone concentrations at Al Jahra station in Kuwait.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta Risoluti ◽  
Giuseppina Gullifa ◽  
Stefano Materazi

In this work, an innovative screening platform based on MicroNIR and chemometrics is proposed for the on-site and contactless monitoring of the quality of milk using simultaneous multicomponent analysis. The novelty of this completely automated tool consists of a miniaturized NIR spectrometer operating in a wireless mode that allows samples to be processed in a rapid and accurate way and to obtain in a single click a comprehensive characterization of the chemical composition of milk. To optimize the platform, milk specimens with different origins and compositions were considered and prediction models were developed by chemometric analysis of the NIR spectra using Partial Least Square regression algorithms. Once calibrated, the platform was used to predict samples acquired in the market and validation was performed by comparing results of the novel platform with those obtained from the chromatographic analysis. Results demonstrated the ability of the platform to differentiate milk as a function of the distribution of fatty acids, providing a rapid and non-destructive method to assess the quality of milk and to avoid food adulteration.


Author(s):  
Sharvari Deshmukh ◽  
Nabarun Bhattacharyya ◽  
Arun Jana ◽  
Rajib Bandyopadhyay ◽  
R. A. Pandey

Industrial odor concentration measurement in continuous mode is a challenging task using olfactometers, as it's expensive and requires human involvement for a prolonged time. This chapter presents the development of an indigenous metal oxide sensor-based electronic nose system for measurement of industrial odor in ou/m3. The results of electronic nose and field olfactometer were correlated using multilinear regression and partial least square regression techniques. The results showed satisfactory prediction by both the models, with RMSE (6.70, and 4.02), RAE (0.29 and 0.16), and NAE (0.89 and 0.96), respectively, for MLR and PLS. The results indicated better performance of PLS compared to MLR. The objective of the present work is to train and employ artificial olfaction system for continuous measurement of obnoxious emissions emitted from industries bypassing involvement of olfactometer.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 1520
Author(s):  
Xiu Jin ◽  
Shaowen Li ◽  
Wu Zhang ◽  
Juanjuan Zhu ◽  
Jia Sun

The application of visible near-infrared (VIS-NIR) analysis technology to quantify the nutrients in soil has been widely recognized. It is important to improve the performance of regression models that can predict the soil-available potassium concentration. This study collected soil samples from southern Anhui, China, and concentrated on the modelling methods by using 29 pretreatment methods. The results show that a combination of three methods, Savitzky–Golay, standard normal variate, and dislodge tendency, exhibited better stability than others because it was the most capable of achieving levels A and B of the ratio of performance of deviation. The boosting algorithms that form an ensemble of multiple weak predictors exhibited better performance than partial least square (PLS) regression and support vector regression (SVR) for the prediction of soil-available potassium. These regression models could be employed to precisely predict the soil-available potassium concentration.


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