Automatic Fruit Recognition Based on DCNN for Commercial Source Trace System

Abstract

Automatically fruit recognition by using machine vision is considered as challenging task due to similarities between various types of fruits and external environmental changes e-g lighting. In this paper, fruit recognition algorithm based on Deep Convolution Neural Network(DCNN) is proposed. Most of the previous techniques have some limitations because they were examined and evaluated under limited dataset, furthermore they have not considered external environmental changes. Another major contribution in this paper is that we established fruit images database having 15 different categories comprising of 44406 images which were collected within a period of 6 months by keeping in view the limitations of existing dataset under different real-world conditions. Images were directly used as input to DCNN for training and recognition without extracting features, besides this DCNN learn optimal features from images through adaptation process. The final decision was totally based on a fusion of all regional classification using probability mechanism. Experimental results exhibit that the proposed approach have efficient capability of automatically recognizing the fruit with a high accuracy of 99% and it can also effectively meet real world application requirements.