Degree of Apple Ripeness Classification by Surface Reflection Analysis

Abstract

Fruit ripeness is conventionally sorted and ranked by the visual appearance and it is done manually with human visual ability. As the consequences, a number of fruits that are classified in the same rank actually have individual diversity. The research investigates the variation among visually same rank of ripe fruit and classifies it into five categories by analyzing the fruit skin glossiness. Considering the physical appearance features, apple is chosen as experiment object. In this paper, classification criteria are based on evaluation is conducted by comparing the result with the ground truth and the result is 78% accurate.