Determining Banana Ripeness Using MobileNet

Bananas are one of the most popular and economically important fruit crops in the world. Not only do they have a sweet taste, but they are also rich in various nutrients that are useful for human body. To find an efficient method for classifying banana ripeness, images of bananas were used to train the MobileNet, ResNet50, and Convolution Neural Network (CNN) machine learning classifiers. These machine learning classifiers can automatically extract the features from the trained images and then use them to build models for classification. The results indicated that the MobileNet, ResNet50 and CNN classifiers could obtain the accuracies of 98.43%, 94.19% and 95.35%, respectively. The accuracies of MobileNet classification from class 0 to class 6 were 99.62%, 98.85%, 99.23%, 100%, 100%, 99.62% and 99.62%, respectively.