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Abstract
Most of classification, quality evaluation or grading of the flue-cured tobacco leaves are manually operated, which relies on the judgmental experience of experts, and inevitably limited by personal, physical and environmental factors. The classification and the quality evaluation are therefore subjective and experientially based. In this paper, an automatic classification method of tobacco leaves based on the digital image processing and the fuzzy sets theory is presented. A grading system based on image processing techniques was developed for automatically inspecting and grading flue-cured tobacco leaves. This system uses machine vision for the extraction and analysis of color, size, shape and surface texture. Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation provides a high level of confidence in decision making based on the fuzzy logic. The neural network is used to estimate and forecast the membership function of the features of tobacco leaves in the fuzzy sets. The experimental results of the two-level fuzzy comprehensive evaluation (FCE) show that the accuracy rate of classification is about 94% for the trained tobacco leaves, and the accuracy rate of the non-trained tobacco leaves is about 72%. We believe that the fuzzy comprehensive evaluation is a viable way for the automatic classification and quality evaluation of the tobacco leaves.Entities:
Keywords: artificial neural network; fuzzy comprehensive evaluation; fuzzy sets; image analysis; tobacco leaf
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Year: 2011 PMID: 22163744 PMCID: PMC3231645 DOI: 10.3390/s110302369
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sensors (Basel) ISSN: 1424-8220 Impact factor: 3.576
Figure 1.Three images of tobacco leaves which are obtained from image processing system of tobacco leaves grading.
Figure 2.The image processing system of tobacco leaves grading.
Figure 3.Edge detection of a tobacco leaf using Laplacian of Gaussian filtering.
Figure 4.The polygonal fitting of edge of the tobacco leaf. The left image is the original tobacco leaf edge, the right image is the polygonal fitted edge.
Figure 5.The structure of back-propagation neural networks.
Shape features of some tobacco leaves.
| No. | Surface area (Number of pixels) | Surface perimeter (Number of pixels) | Disfigurement (%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40502 | 1080 | 1.28 |
| 2 | 48607 | 1308 | 0.56 |
| 3 | 39775 | 1013 | 3.96 |
| 4 | 57862 | 1406 | 3.01 |
| 5 | 18515 | 544 | 4.74 |
| 6 | 25924 | 956 | 1.90 |
| 7 | 10803 | 289 | 2.91 |
| 8 | 14435 | 419 | 3.12 |
| 9 | 59146 | 1750 | 2.16 |
| 10 | 30747 | 727 | 9.47 |
| 11 | 26838 | 625 | 1.47 |
Texture features of some tobacco leaves (Dimensionless unit).
| No. | Texture energy | Texture entropy | Texture contrast |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47.85714 | 145 | 33.14286 |
| 2 | 45 | 150.2857 | 35.42857 |
| 3 | 51 | 135.8333 | 33.33333 |
| 4 | 44 | 144.5714 | 32.42857 |
| 5 | 57.28571 | 121.5714 | 31.28572 |
| 6 | 54 | 126.8333 | 27.83333 |
| 7 | 35 | 172.1429 | 41 |
| 8 | 48 | 143.8571 | 34 |
| 9 | 35.33333 | 158.6667 | 33.33333 |
| 10 | 38.28571 | 163.7143 | 39.85714 |
| 11 | 44.85714 | 146.5714 | 34.28571 |
| 12 | 61.6 | 110.4 | 27.4 |
| 13 | 71.57143 | 89.28571 | 25.42857 |
| 14 | 40 | 149.3333 | 32.33333 |
| 15 | 61.28571 | 106.5714 | 26.71428 |
| 16 | 69.2 | 85.4 | 21.8 |
| 17 | 52.25 | 121.25 | 27 |
| 18 | 64.75 | 94 | 24 |
| 19 | 46.42857 | 128.2857 | 25.57143 |
| 20 | 53.42857 | 113.8571 | 25.42857 |
| 21 | 42.57143 | 152.2857 | 35.57143 |
| 22 | 42.28571 | 153 | 37.71429 |
| 23 | 55.28571 | 120.4286 | 29.28572 |
| 24 | 39.14286 | 157 | 35.14286 |
Features of three classes (X1L, B4L and S1) of the standard specimen tobacco leaves.
| 2123 | 41937 | 0.011 | 0.48 | −1.43 | 33.14 | 887 | 696 | 575 |
| 941 | 16478 | 0.036 | 0.71 | −0.9 | 25.43 | 1027 | 826 | 593 |
| 2069 | 41242 | 0.08 | 0.42 | −1.53 | 35.57 | 633 | 612 | 523 |
Features of a test tobacco leaf.
| 820 | 18236 | 0.038 | 0.72 | −0.89 | 25.22 | 1032 | 853 | 698 |
The grade of membership.
| X1L | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 |
| B4L | 0.5 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.5 |
| S1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 |
Color features of some tobacco leaves (Dimensionless unit).
| No. | Variance of red | Variance of green | Variance of blue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 185.4286 | 150.7143 | 95.14286 |
| 2 | 185.5714 | 153 | 98.57143 |
| 3 | 183 | 154.3333 | 103 |
| 4 | 157.2857 | 123.1429 | 76.14286 |
| 5 | 162 | 132 | 87.14286 |
| 6 | 175 | 144.1667 | 94.33334 |
| 7 | 163.8571 | 129.1429 | 81 |
| 8 | 174 | 141 | 90.42857 |
| 9 | 132 | 102.6667 | 66.33334 |
| 10 | 157.5714 | 122.5714 | 77.71429 |
| 11 | 160 | 127.2857 | 82 |
| 12 | 167.2 | 136.6 | 88.4 |
| 13 | 162.8571 | 135.5714 | 88.85714 |
| 14 | 130.1667 | 100.3333 | 65.16666 |
| 15 | 141 | 110.4286 | 73.42857 |
| 16 | 129.2 | 102.6 | 69.4 |
| 17 | 120.625 | 94.25 | 65.125 |
| 18 | 114.5 | 91.75 | 67 |
| 19 | 119.7143 | 94.71429 | 68.28571 |
| 20 | 111.5714 | 91.42857 | 68.14286 |
| 21 | 170.4286 | 138.2857 | 89.42857 |
| 22 | 150.2857 | 116.1429 | 72.28571 |
| 23 | 142.7143 | 113.4286 | 75.42857 |
| 24 | 160.7143 | 126.4286 | 77.28571 |