Development And Application Of Machine Vision For Inspection Of Agricultural Products

Abstract

The inspection and sorting of agricultural products is a necessary technological operation in the agricultural and food industries. Research in this area shows significant potential in improving the inspection and evaluation of fruits, vegetables, the quality of cereals and other agricultural products, as well as the evaluation of the quality of prepared food products by non-destructive methods. As an integrated system, machine vision has been widely used to test, monitor and control various industrial processes. The increasing and complex performance requirements of modern machine vision systems require their further improvement through the development of new, intelligent solutions. Automatic non-destructive recognition of the qualitative characteristics of different types of bio products is a constant challenge for researchers, where the imperative is on product and method which is applicable in industrial conditions. In this regard, there is a large number of works with experimental and numerical data collected for different construction solutions and operating conditions. This paper will analyze the development of machine vision as well as its application in agriculture over the last five years. A special part will be guidelines for the direction of further research in the field of optical recognition of agricultural products.