Characterisation of Pineapple Cultivars under Different Storage Conditions Using Infrared Thermal Imaging Coupled with Machine Learning Algorithms

Maimunah Mohd Ali, Norhashila Hashim, Samsuzana Abd Aziz and Ola Lasekan
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Maimunah Mohd Ali: Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
Norhashila Hashim: Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
Samsuzana Abd Aziz: Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia
Ola Lasekan: Department of Food Technology, Faculty of Food Science and Technology, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang 43400, Selangor, Malaysia

Agriculture, 2022, vol. 12, issue 7, 1-17

Abstract: The non-invasive ability of infrared thermal imaging has gained interest in various food classification and recognition tasks. In this work, infrared thermal imaging was used to distinguish different pineapple cultivars, i.e., MD2, Morris, and Josapine, which were subjected to different storage temperatures, i.e., 5, 10, and 25 °C and a relative humidity of 85% to 90%. A total of 14 features from the thermal images were obtained to determine the variation in terms of image parameters among the different pineapple cultivars. Principal component analysis was applied for feature reduction in order to prevent any effect of significant difference between the selected features. Several types of machine learning algorithms were compared, including linear discriminant analysis, quadratic discriminant analysis, support vector machine, k-nearest neighbour, decision tree, and naïve Bayes, to obtain the best performance for the classification of pineapple cultivars. The results showed that support vector machine achieved the best performance from the combination of optimal image parameters with the highest classification rate of 100%. The ability of infrared thermal imaging coupled with machine learning approaches can be potentially used to distinguish pineapple cultivars, which could enhance the grading and sorting processes of the fruit.

Keywords: storage temperature; thermal imaging; machine learning; pineapple; cultivar classification (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q1 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 Q17 Q18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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