The Analysis of Garlic Quality Based on Physical and Morphological Properties of a Whole Bulb of Garlic at the Harvesting Season - Discrimination Algorithms for Garlic Quality Grading -

수확기 통마늘의 물리적 및 형상적 특성에 기초한 마늘 품질 분석 - 마늘 등급판정을 위한 판별 알고리즘 -

This study was performed as a basic research for establishing an objective quality evaluation method on whole bulbs of garlic. The size of a whole bulb of garlic, the number and the uniformity of complete individual garlics, and the existence of bad individual garlics in the whole bulb of garlic were selected as quality grading factors. Quality discrimination algorithms with machine vision techniques were developed and verified for the four factors based on morphological and physical features of whole bulbs of garlic. Based on the results, the size discrimination by the projected area of a whole bulbs of garlic suggested four grading levels and the algorithm for predicting the number of complete individual garlics based on the peaks on its projected boundary showed ${\pm}$0.78 prediction error. In addition, the uniformity represented by coefficient of variation could be divided into four levels, but the algorithm for discriminating the existence of bad individual garlics in a whole bulb of garlic was not effective.