HUBEI AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES ›› 2025, Vol. 64 ›› Issue (12): 212-217.doi: 10.14088/j.cnki.issn0439-8114.2025.12.036

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A detection method for potato shape of commercial potatoes based on quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization and support vector machine

WAN Peng1,2, XIONG Cheng-xin1, CAI Jie3, LIU Yan-fang3, WU Xiao-long1   

  1. 1. College of Engineering, Huazhong Agricultural University, Wuhan 430070, China;
    2. Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Key Laboratory of Agricultural Equipment in Mid-Lower Yangtze River, Wuhan 430070, China;
    3. Hubei Academy of Scientific and Technical Information, Wuhan 430071, China
  • Received:2025-08-15 Published:2025-12-30

Abstract: Aiming at the problems of low accuracy and poor efficiency of existing potato shape detection methods for commercial potatoes, which made it difficult to meet the requirements of mechanized and automated sorting, a method for potato shape detection was investigated based on machine vision technology. Three potato shapes (spherical or subspherical, ellipsoidal, and irregular) were taken as research objects. First, a potato image acquisition system was built to collect images of the three shapes. Then, the images were preprocessed to obtain potato contour images. Subsequently, ten invariant moments of the potato images were extracted as feature parameters, and thesupport vector machine classifier was optimized using the quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization algorithm, ultimately achieving automatic detection of potato shape. The results showed that the detection accuracies for spherical or subspherical, ellipsoidal, and irregular potato shapes in the QPSO-SVM model were 97.0%, 94.0%, and 91.0%, respectively, with an average detection accuracy of 95.2%. This model could be used for the rapid detection of potato shape.

Key words: quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization, support vector machine, potato, commercial potato, potato shape

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