Title
Predicting Cherry Quality Using Siamese Networks
Abstract
The cherry industry is a rapidly growing sector of New Zealand's export merchandise and, as such, the accuracy with which pack-houses can grade cherries during processing is becoming increasingly critical. Conventional computer vision systems are usually employed in this process, yet they fall short in many respects, still requiring humans to manually verify the grading. In this work, we investigate the use of deep learning to improve upon the traditional approach. The nature of the industry means that the grade standards are influenced by a range of factors and can change on a daily basis. This makes conventional classification approaches infeasible (as there are no fixed classes) so we construct a model to overcome this. We convert the problem from classification to regression, using a Siamese network trained with pairwise comparison labels. We extract the model embedded within to predict continuous quality values for the fruit. Our model is able to predict which of two similar quality fruit is better with over 88% accuracy, only 5% below the self-agreement of a human expert.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/IVCNZ51579.2020.9290674
2020 35th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ)
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
New Zealand's export merchandise,pack-houses,computer vision systems,deep learning,grade standards,conventional classification approaches,Siamese network,pairwise comparison labels,continuous quality values,cherry quality,cherry industry,regression analysis,human expert
Conference
2151-2191
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-8580-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yerren van Sint Annaland100.34
Lech Szymanski2286.78
Steven Mills34117.74