IJCTE 2024 Vol.16(1): 29-34
DOI: 10.7763/IJCTE.2024.V16.1351
Deep Learning-Based Approach for Tomato Classification in Complex Scenes
Mikaël A. Mousse1,*, Béthel C. A. R. K. Atohoun2, and Cina Motamed3
1. Institut Universitaire de Technologie, Université de Parakou, Parakou, Bénin
2. Département Informatique, Ecole Supérieure de Gestion d’Informatique et des Sciences, Cotonou, Bénin
3. Institut Universitaire de Technologie de l’Indre, Université d’Orléans, Orléans, France
Email: mikael.mousse@univ-parakou.bj (M.A.M.); b.atohoun@esgis.org (B.C.A.R.K.A); motamed@free.fr (C.M.)
*Corresponding author
Manuscript received August 30, 2023; revised September 22, 2023; accepted January 23, 2024; published February 25, 2024
Abstract—Tracking ripening tomatoes is time consuming and labor intensive. Artificial intelligence technologies combined with those of computer vision can help users optimize the process of monitoring the ripening status of plants. To this end, we have proposed a tomato ripening monitoring approach based on deep learning in complex scenes. The objective is to detect mature tomatoes and harvest them in a timely manner. The proposed approach is declined in two parts. Firstly, the images of the scene are transmitted to the pre-processing layer. This process allows the detection of areas of interest (area of the image containing tomatoes). Then, these images are used as input to the maturity detection layer. This layer, based on a deep neural network learning algorithm, classifies the tomato thumbnails provided to it in one of the following five categories: green, brittle, pink, pale red, mature red. The experiments are based on images collected from the internet gathered through searches using tomato state across diverse languages including English, German, French, and Spanish. The experimental results of the maturity detection layer on a dataset composed of images of tomatoes taken under the extreme conditions, gave a good classification rate.
Keywords—tomato detection, tomato state classification, image processing, deep learning, superpixel segmentation
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Cite: Mikaël A. Mousse, Béthel C. A. R. K. Atohoun, and Cina Motamed, "Deep Learning-Based Approach for Tomato Classification in Complex Scenes," International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 29-34, 2024.
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