TY - JOUR
T1 - Classification of maize kernels using NIR hyperspectral imaging
AU - Williams, Paul
AU - Kucheryavskiy, Sergey V.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - NIR hyperspectral imaging was evaluated to classify maize kernels of three hardness categories: hard, medium and soft. Two approaches, pixel-wise and object-wise, were investigated to group kernels according to hardness. The pixel-wise classification assigned a class to every pixel from individual kernels and did not give acceptable results because of high misclassification. However by using a predefined threshold and classifying entire kernels based on the number of correctly predicted pixels, improved results were achieved (sensitivity and specificity of 0.75 and 0.97). Object-wise classification was performed using two methods for feature extraction — score histograms and mean spectra. The model based on score histograms performed better for hard kernel classification (sensitivity and specificity of 0.93 and 0.97), while that of mean spectra gave better results for medium kernels (sensitivity and specificity of 0.95 and 0.93). Both feature extraction methods can be recommended for classification of maize kernels on production scale.
AB - NIR hyperspectral imaging was evaluated to classify maize kernels of three hardness categories: hard, medium and soft. Two approaches, pixel-wise and object-wise, were investigated to group kernels according to hardness. The pixel-wise classification assigned a class to every pixel from individual kernels and did not give acceptable results because of high misclassification. However by using a predefined threshold and classifying entire kernels based on the number of correctly predicted pixels, improved results were achieved (sensitivity and specificity of 0.75 and 0.97). Object-wise classification was performed using two methods for feature extraction — score histograms and mean spectra. The model based on score histograms performed better for hard kernel classification (sensitivity and specificity of 0.93 and 0.97), while that of mean spectra gave better results for medium kernels (sensitivity and specificity of 0.95 and 0.93). Both feature extraction methods can be recommended for classification of maize kernels on production scale.
U2 - 10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.04.044
DO - 10.1016/j.foodchem.2016.04.044
M3 - Journal article
SN - 0308-8146
VL - 209
SP - 131
EP - 138
JO - Food Chemistry
JF - Food Chemistry
ER -