Identifying strawberry appearance quality based on unsupervised deep learning

Abstract

The strawberry appearance is an essential standard for judging the quality, so it is crucial to accurately identify the strawberry appearance quality for intelligent picking. This study proposed a new strawberry appearance quality detection based on unsupervised deep learning. Firstly, using deep learning (Resnet18, Resnet50, and Resnet101) to extract the strawberry image feature information. And using the t-SNE (t-distribution stochastic neighbor embedding) to reduce the feature vectors’ dimension. Finally, the unsupervised learning method (Gaussian Mixture Model) was used to cluster strawberries’ feature points. The results showed that: (1) the clustering performance based on Resnet101 was effective in 2-dimensional space, the cluster accuracy was 94.89%, and the validation accuracy was 91.79%. (2) The clustering method based on Resnet50 had good performance in the 3-dimensional space, the cluster accuracy was 96.10%, and the validation accuracy was 93.08%. (3) The accuracy of deep features plus RF (random forest) was 95.00% under limited data. Thus this method will promote intelligent picking strawberry equipment and it will overcome the supervised learning drawback that divides image datasets according to prior knowledge.

Plant phenotyping relevance

イチゴ果実画像から外観品質を推定・分類する深層学習とクラスタリング手法が研究の中心であり、植物器官の状態を定量化するフェノタイピング手法に該当する。

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