Image Processing
O. Doosti Irani; M. H. Aghkhani; M. R. Golzarian
Abstract
Robotic harvesting in agriculture is an effective method for producing healthy fruit, reducing costs, and increasing productivity. Detecting and harvesting sweet peppers, however, remains a challenging task. This study aims to develop an unsupervised machine vision algorithm to recognize colored sweet ...
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Robotic harvesting in agriculture is an effective method for producing healthy fruit, reducing costs, and increasing productivity. Detecting and harvesting sweet peppers, however, remains a challenging task. This study aims to develop an unsupervised machine vision algorithm to recognize colored sweet peppers using a combination of geometric features (Fast Point Feature Histogram- FPFH) and color features (H, S, and V). Depth images were captured using a Kinect v2 sensor, and a 3D model was reconstructed. After extracting the geometric and color features, data preprocessing involved undersampling to ensure balance and applying the Z-score criterion to eliminate outliers. Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to reduce the feature dimensions, and the K-means clustering model was implemented to categorize the data using six geometric features and three color features. The silhouette coefficient was employed to evaluate clustering quality, and human evaluation demonsterated that the algorithm achieved a detection accuracy of 95.10% for sweet peppers.
