Fruit-CNN: An Efficient Deep learning-based Fruit Classification and Quality Assessment for Precision Agriculture

Abstract

Diseases of fruits and assessment of their quality are one of the key challenges in the farming sector and their automated recognition is very critical to save time and avoid financial loss. The process of manually looking at and identifying the fruit type in crops can be a cumbersome task, the time from which could be put to better use. In this paper, a novel deep learning-based architecture Fruit-CNN has been proposed to identify the type of fruit and their quality assessment of realworld images in multiple visual variations which achieves a test accuracy of 99.6%. The proposed architecture takes minimal time to train the large dataset and test fruit images in comparison with state-of-the-art deep learning models which proves its wide applicability in precision agriculture. More images belonging to various classes can also be trained with fewer parameters which result in fast training of models and less processing time.