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VeggieVision: A Produce Recognition System
R. M. Bolle, J. Connell, N. Haas, R. Mohan, G. Taubin
Proc. of the Third IEEE Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV-96), Sarasota FL, pp. 224-251, December 1996.

We present an automatic produce ID system ("VeggieVision"), intended to ease the produce checkout process. The system consists of an integrated scale and imaging system with a user-friendly interface. When a produce item is placed on the scale, an image is taken. A variety of features, color, texture (shape, density), are then extracted. These features are compared to stored "signatures" which were obtained by prior system training (either on-line or off-line). Depending on the certainty of the classification, the final decision is made either by the system or by a human from a number of choices selected by the system. Over 95% of the time, the correct produce classification is in the top four choices.

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