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.

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.

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 IMPLEMENTATION OF GENETIC ALGORITHM BASED ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK TO IDENTIFY VEGETABLES WITH PHYSIOLOGICAL DISEASES

2013 ◽  
pp. 72-77
Author(s):  
Bibhu Prasad ◽  
Ashima Sindhu Mohanty ◽  
Ami Kumar Parida
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Genetic Algorithm ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Vision System ◽  
Computer Vision System ◽  
Accuracy Rate ◽  
Artificial Neural ◽  
Artificial Neural Network Ann ◽  
Neural Network Technology

We synthetically applied computer vision, genetic algorithm and artificial neural network technology to automatically identify the vegetables (tomatoes) that had physiological diseases. Initially tomatoes’ images were captured through a computer vision system. Then to identify cavernous tomatoes, we analyzed the roundness and detected deformed tomatoes by applying the variation of vegetable’s diameter. Later, we used a Genetic Algorithm (GA) based artificial neural network (ANN). Experiments show that the above methods can accurately identify vegetables’ shapes and meet requests of classification; the accuracy rate for the identification for vegetables with physiological diseases was up to 100%. [Nature and Science. 2005; 3(2):52-58].

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