Accurate segmentation of fruit based on deep learning

Abstract

In the last few years, deep learning has exhibited its efficacy and capacity in the field of computer vision owing to its exceptional precision and widespread acceptance. The primary objective of this study is to investigate an improved approach for segmentation in the context of various fruit categories. Despite the utilization of deep learning, the current segmentation techniques for various fruit items exhibit subpar performance. The proposed enhanced multiple fruit segmentation algorithm has the following main steps: 1) modifying the size of the filter, 2) the process of optimizing the ResNet-101 block involves selecting the most suitable count of repetitions. The multiple fruit dataset is split 80% in the training stage and 20% in the testing stage. These images were utilized to train a deep learning (DL) based algorithm, which aims to identify multiple fruit items within images accurately. The proposed algorithm has a lower training time compared to the other algorithms. The thresholds exhibit greater values compared to the thresholds of state-of-the-art algorithms.