Kentaro Mohri

Study on Quality Evaluation of Orange Fruit Using Image Processing

Abstract It is important to classify fruit after harvesting according to its quality, but many kinds of fruits are classified based on only their size or shape. Generally speaking, Iyokan orange fruit whose color is reddish, whose size is medium, whose height is short and whose surface is glossy is sweet, however, the criterion depends on worker for classification and on district in Japan. In this paper, investigation to evaluate Iyokan orange fruit using image processing objectively is described. From the results, it was observed that the features extracted from image had some relationship to the fruit quality.