Multispectral analysis for the determination of lycopene concentration in tomatoes
Marcel Mlynarik,
Gary A. Atkinson,
Melvyn L. Smyth,
Khemraj Emrith
Kapitel/Beitrag aus dem Buch: Beyerer, J et al. 2023. OCM 2023 - 6th International Conference on Optical Characterization of Materials, March 22nd – 23rd, 2023, Karlsruhe, Germany : Conference Proceedings.
This paper describes a novel computer vision method
for the estimation of lycopene concentration in tomatoes using
a multispectral imaging approach with up to 15 bands. It is
shown that combining intensity measurements at wavelengths
from near-infrared to ultraviolet using a neural network model
achieved correlation of R2=0.977 and RMS error=4.63 mg/kg
against ground truth lycopene concentration. Our results are
comparable or superior to other methods from the literature,
which are analysed in detail in the paper. The method can be
reproduced with minimal cost and demonstrates the feasibility
of the method for industrial application. The main contribution
is that a broader range of wavelengths are considered compared
to most previous work, with rigorous analysis using a combination
of simple regression and artificial neural networks.