scholarly journals Designing a Fruit Identification Algorithm in Orchard Conditions to Develop Robots Using Video Processing and Majority Voting Based on Hybrid Artificial Neural Network

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 383 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sajad Sabzi ◽  
Razieh Pourdarbani ◽  
Davood Kalantari ◽  
Thomas Panagopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Video Processing ◽  
Color Space ◽  
Majority Voting ◽  
Identification Algorithm ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Majority Voting Method ◽  
Voting Method

The first step in identifying fruits on trees is to develop garden robots for different purposes such as fruit harvesting and spatial specific spraying. Due to the natural conditions of the fruit orchards and the unevenness of the various objects throughout it, usage of the controlled conditions is very difficult. As a result, these operations should be performed in natural conditions, both in light and in the background. Due to the dependency of other garden robot operations on the fruit identification stage, this step must be performed precisely. Therefore, the purpose of this paper was to design an identification algorithm in orchard conditions using a combination of video processing and majority voting based on different hybrid artificial neural networks. The different steps of designing this algorithm were: (1) Recording video of different plum orchards at different light intensities; (2) converting the videos produced into its frames; (3) extracting different color properties from pixels; (4) selecting effective properties from color extraction properties using hybrid artificial neural network-harmony search (ANN-HS); and (5) classification using majority voting based on three classifiers of artificial neural network-bees algorithm (ANN-BA), artificial neural network-biogeography-based optimization (ANN-BBO), and artificial neural network-firefly algorithm (ANN-FA). Most effective features selected by the hybrid ANN-HS consisted of the third channel in hue saturation lightness (HSL) color space, the second channel in lightness chroma hue (LCH) color space, the first channel in L*a*b* color space, and the first channel in hue saturation intensity (HSI). The results showed that the accuracy of the majority voting method in the best execution and in 500 executions was 98.01% and 97.20%, respectively. Based on different performance evaluation criteria of the classifiers, it was found that the majority voting method had a higher performance.

scholarly journals Comparison of Different Classifiers and the Majority Voting Rule for the Detection of Plum Fruits in Garden Conditions

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 2546 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razieh Pourdarbani ◽  
Sajad Sabzi ◽  
Mario Hernández-Hernández ◽  
José Luis Hernández-Hernández ◽  
Ginés García-Mateos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Harmony Search ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Majority Voting ◽  
Ensemble Method ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Majority Voting Method ◽  
Voting Method

Color segmentation is one of the most thoroughly studied problems in agricultural applications of remote image capture systems, since it is the key step in several different tasks, such as crop harvesting, site specific spraying, and targeted disease control under natural light. This paper studies and compares five methods to segment plum fruit images under ambient conditions at 12 different light intensities, and an ensemble method combining them. In these methods, several color features in different color spaces are first extracted for each pixel, and then the most effective features are selected using a hybrid approach of artificial neural networks and the cultural algorithm (ANN-CA). The features selected among the 38 defined channels were the b* channel of L*a*b*, and the color purity index, C*, from L*C*h. Next, fruit/background segmentation is performed using five classifiers: artificial neural network-imperialist competitive algorithm (ANN-ICA); hybrid artificial neural network-harmony search (ANN-HS); support vector machines (SVM); k nearest neighbors (kNN); and linear discriminant analysis (LDA). In the ensemble method, the final class for each pixel is determined using the majority voting method. The experiments showed that the correct classification rate for the majority voting method excluding LDA was 98.59%, outperforming the results of the constituent methods.

scholarly journals A Computer Vision System Based on Majority-Voting Ensemble Neural Network for the Automatic Classification of Three Chickpea Varieties

Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Razieh Pourdarbani ◽  
Sajad Sabzi ◽  
Davood Kalantari ◽  
José Luis Hernández-Hernández ◽  
Juan Ignacio Arribas
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Color Space ◽  
Majority Voting ◽  
Hsi Color Space ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Hybrid Artificial Neural Network

Since different varieties of crops have specific applications, it is therefore important to properly identify each cultivar, in order to avoid fake varieties being sold as genuine, i.e., fraud. Despite that properly trained human experts might accurately identify and classify crop varieties, computer vision systems are needed since conditions such as fatigue, reproducibility, and so on, can influence the expert’s judgment and assessment. Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is an important legume at the world-level and has several varieties. Three chickpea varieties with a rather similar visual appearance were studied here: Adel, Arman, and Azad chickpeas. The purpose of this paper is to present a computer vision system for the automatic classification of those chickpea varieties. First, segmentation was performed using an Hue Saturation Intensity (HSI) color space threshold. Next, color and textural (from the gray level co-occurrence matrix, GLCM) properties (features) were extracted from the chickpea sample images. Then, using the hybrid artificial neural network-cultural algorithm (ANN-CA), the sub-optimal combination of the five most effective properties (mean of the RGB color space components, mean of the HSI color space components, entropy of GLCM matrix at 90°, standard deviation of GLCM matrix at 0°, and mean third component in YCbCr color space) were selected as discriminant features. Finally, an ANN-PSO/ACO/HS majority voting (MV) ensemble methodology merging three different classifier outputs, namely the hybrid artificial neural network-particle swarm optimization (ANN-PSO), hybrid artificial neural network-ant colony optimization (ANN-ACO), and hybrid artificial neural network-harmonic search (ANN-HS), was used. Results showed that the ensemble ANN-PSO/ACO/HS-MV classifier approach reached an average classification accuracy of 99.10 ± 0.75% over the test set, after averaging 1000 random iterations.

A Non - Intrusive Load Identification Algorithm Combined with Event Detection

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Runhai Jiao ◽  
Qihang Zhou ◽  
Liangqiu Lyu ◽  
Guangwei Yan
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Event Detection ◽  
The State ◽  
Event Recognition ◽  
Identification Algorithm ◽  
Load Identification ◽  
Fusion Model ◽  
Public Data ◽  
Artificial Neural

Background: The traditional state-based non-intrusive load monitoring method mainly deploys the aggregate load as the characteristic to identify the states of every electrical appliance. Each identification is relatively independent, and there is no correlation between the identification results. Objective: This paper combines the event detection results with the state-based non-intrusive load identification algorithm to improve accuracy. Methods: Firstly, the load recognition model based on an artificial neural network is constructed, and the state-based recognition results are obtained. An event recognition and detection model is then built to identify electrical state transitions, that is, the current moment based on the event recognition results obtained from the previous moment. Finally, a reasonable decision method is constructed to determine the identification result of the electrical states. Result: Experimental results on the public data set REDD show that in the Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) fusion model, the macro-F1 is increased by an average of 6%, and the macro-F1 of the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) fusion model is increased by an average of 5.3% compared with LSTM and ANN. Conclusion: The proposed model can effectively improve the accuracy of identification compared with the state-based load identification method.

scholarly journals Design and development of a machine vision system using artificial neural network-based algorithm for automated coal characterization

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar Gorai ◽  
Simit Raval ◽  
Ashok Kumar Patel ◽  
Snehamoy Chatterjee ◽  
Tarini Gautam
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Machine Vision ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Color Space ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Discrete Wavelet ◽  
Machine Vision System ◽  
Coal Characterization ◽  
Artificial Neural

Abstract Coal is heterogeneous in nature, and thus the characterization of coal is essential before its use for a specific purpose. Thus, the current study aims to develop a machine vision system for automated coal characterizations. The model was calibrated using 80 image samples that are captured for different coal samples in different angles. All the images were captured in RGB color space and converted into five other color spaces (HSI, CMYK, Lab, xyz, Gray) for feature extraction. The intensity component image of HSI color space was further transformed into four frequency components (discrete cosine transform, discrete wavelet transform, discrete Fourier transform, and Gabor filter) for the texture features extraction. A total of 280 image features was extracted and optimized using a step-wise linear regression-based algorithm for model development. The datasets of the optimized features were used as an input for the model, and their respective coal characteristics (analyzed in the laboratory) were used as outputs of the model. The R-squared values were found to be 0.89, 0.92, 0.92, and 0.84, respectively, for fixed carbon, ash content, volatile matter, and moisture content. The performance of the proposed artificial neural network model was also compared with the performances of performances of Gaussian process regression, support vector regression, and radial basis neural network models. The study demonstrates the potential of the machine vision system in automated coal characterization.

Eye Diseases Classification Using Back Propagation Artificial Neural Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1B) ◽  
pp. 11-20
Author(s):  
Hanaa M. Ahmad ◽  
Shrooq R. Hameed
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Color Space ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
Texture Features ◽  
Eye Diseases ◽  
Color Histogram ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Human Eye ◽  
Artificial Neural

A human eye is a vital organ responsible for a person's vision. So, the early detection of eye diseases is essential. The objective of this paper deals with diagnosing of seven different external eye diseases that can be recognized by a human eye. These diseases cause problems either in eye pupil, in sclera of eye or in both or in eyelid. Color histogram and texture features extraction techniques with classification technique are used to achieve the goal of diagnosing external eye diseases.  Hue Min Max Diff (HMMD) color space is used to extract color histogram and texture features which were fed to Back Propagation Artificial Neural Network (BPANN) for classification. The comparative study states that the features extracted from HMMD color space is better than other features like Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) features and give the same accuracy as features extracted directly from medical expert recorded symptoms. The proposed method is applied on external eye diseases data set consisting of 416 images with an accuracy rate of 85.26315%, which is the major result that was achieved in this study.

scholarly journals Artificial Neural Network Based Efficiency Prediction and Its Impact on Dye Synthesized Solar Cell

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 2696-2699
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Solar Cell ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Model ◽  
Neural System ◽  
Natural Conditions ◽  
Forward Algorithm ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
Efficiency Data

Alongside numerous different parameters, the general proficiency of pv element relies upon temperature of cell, which, depends on different ecological variables. Natural conditions, for instance, speed of wind solar irradiance, and wind course and in particular, the temperature around the cell influences cells exhibition. Also the climate forecast and meteorology is an exceptionally perplexing and loose science, ongoing exploration exercises with counterfeit neural system (ANN) have indicated that it has ground-breaking design arrangement and example acknowledgment capacities and that can be utilized as a device to obtain a sensible precise expectation of climate designs. This paper focuses on an application of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to estimate the efficiency of Dye Synthesized solar cell. During writing of this research paper, development last ten years has been considered. An Artificial Neural Network model based on Multilayer Perceptron concept has been developed and trained using Levenberg-Marquardt feed-forward algorithm for prediction. The model was tested and trained using ten years of efficiency data of Dye synthesized solar cell. The exactness of the model was determined on premise of Mean Square Error. The result shows that Neural Network can be used for efficiency prediction successfully

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