CLASSIFICATION OF OIL PALM FRUIT CROSS-SECTIONS USING HSV FEATURE EXTRACTION AND GAUSSIAN NAÏVE BAYES

Abstract

Accurate identification of oil palm fruit varieties is essential for supporting breeding programs and optimizing seed quality in plantation operations. Manual approaches often lead to inconsistencies due to the high visual similarity among fruit types, particularly between dura and tenera. This study proposes an automatic classification model for oil palm fruit cross-sections using HSV-based color feature extraction combined with a Gaussian Naïve Bayes classifier. A dataset of 186 cross-sectional fruit images was used, consisting of 90 training samples and 96 testing samples representing the dura, pisifera, and tenera varieties. The methodology includes preprocessing, segmentation, HSV feature extraction, model training, and performance evaluation through a confusion matrix. Experimental results show that the proposed model achieves an accuracy of 85%, with misclassifications primarily occurring in the tenera class due to its close resemblance to the dura variety. Compared to Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), the proposed approach demonstrates faster computation time and competitive accuracy. These findings indicate that Gaussian Naïve Bayes, supported by HSV feature descriptors, provides an efficient solution for lightweight and cost-effective digital classification of oil palm fruit varieties

Plant phenotyping relevance

油ヤシ果実断面画像から品種を自動分類する画像解析手法を開発・評価しており、植物器官の表現型取得・判別が中心的な技術貢献である。

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