Computerized Unripe and Ripe Durian Striking Sound Recognition Using Syllable-Based HMMs

Abstract:

Buying expensive agricultural produce and fruit such as durians that are unripe can result in a bad experience for a consumer and a loss in profit for a retailer. Therefore, the study of durian striking sounds to create an automatic method of recognizing the ripeness of durians without cutting or damaging them is interesting because it could benefit shoppers and the fruit industry. To solve the problem, the following method of recognizing unripe and ripe striking signals is proposed. First, in the recognition process, the spectral features of the signals are extracted. Then, acoustic models of durian striking sounds are created using syllable-based Hidden Markov Models (HMM). Finally, sequences of syllable-based unripe and ripe durians and defined possible durian ripeness results are applied to recognize the ripeness. Average ripeness recognition rates of more than 90.0% were achieved when using any number of strikes from one to five. When the number of strikes was limited to four and five, higher recognition rates of 95.0% and 92.0% were achieved for the untrained and unknown test sets, respectively. An average total recognition time of less than 80 milliseconds was taken to recognize the unripe and ripe durian striking sounds. The experimental results indicate that the proposed method is a time-efficient, accurate and effective way of recognizing durian ripeness.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 446-447)
• Pages: 927-935
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.446-447.927
• Online since: November 2013
• Authors: Rong Phoophuangpairoj
• Keywords: Durian, HMM, Ripeness Recognition, Striking Signal Recognition, SVM, Syllable-Based Acoustic Models, Tapping Sounds, Unripe and Ripe

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