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Identification of Maturity and Ripening of Guava using Artificial Neural Networks


V. Srividhya,K.Sujatha,R.S. Ponmagal,N.P.G. Bhavani
Abstract

Aging is a stick out amongst the most imperative procedures in organic products, which include changes in shading, flavor, surface etc for palatable purposes. Countless, biochemical and auxiliary changes happen amid maturing of natural products which incorporates degradation of starch or other stock piling polysaccharides, creation of sugars, combination of colors, unstable mixes and halfway soluble of cell division. These progressions amid aging is of prime significance in checking post reap misfortunes for creating advancements in upgrading the time span of usability of organic products. In climacteric organic products, the guava (Psidium guajava L.) shows an average increment in respiration and ethylene generation amid maturing process. It diminishes promptly, has a short time span of usability, which thus makes transportation and capacity troublesome. Skin shading is the best development list in guava to be checked non-ruinously amid natural product maturing and capacity. Natural products accomplishing development hint using shade changing from light green to yellowish green. Then the organic product is to be dispatched to remove markets, fully measured and of firm surface. Gathering natural products at fitting phase of development is basic in keeping up the post reap nature of guava organic products. This article investigates natural guava ripening, development, post reap physiology and synthesis of guava organic products using color image processing and Support vector machine whose efficiency is determined. For this purpose Sum of Absolute Difference (SAD) is used for optimal feature selection and finally the Feed Forward Neural Network (FFNN) trained with Back Propagation Algorithm (BPA) is used. Classification efficiency of nearly 97.2% is achieved.

Volume 11 | 02-Special Issue

Pages: 802-810