B. Ashokkumar

Work place: Dept of EEE Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai Tamil Nadu, India

E-mail: ashokudt@tce.edu

Website: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2140-0463

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Biography

B. Ashokkumar was born in Tamilnadu, India in the year 1981. He received his B.E. in Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering from Madurai Kamaraj University, Madurai and M.E. in Applied Electronics from Anna University, Chennai in 2003 and 2006 respectively. He completed his Ph.D. in the area of renewable energy from Anna University in the year 2016. Since, 2008, He has been working as Assistant Professor in the department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai. His research interests include renewable energy applications and mitigation of power quality issues. He has published 25 papers in journals, national and international conferences.

Author Articles
A Novel Image Acquisition Technique for Classifying Whole and Split Cashew Nuts Images Using Multi-CNN

By A. Sivaranjani S. Senthilrani A. Senthil Murugan B. Ashokkumar

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijem.2024.06.03, Pub. Date: 8 Dec. 2024

Multi CNN has recently gained popularity in image classification applications. In particular, Computer vision has acquired a lot of attraction due to its numerous potential uses in food quality management. Among all the dry fruits available in India, the cashew nut is a significant crop. Specifically high-quality cashew nuts are quite popular on the worldwide market. Although there are a variety of approaches for automatically identifying cashew nuts, the majority of them concentrate on a single view image of the cashew nut. The fundamental issue with current methods for recognizing whole and split cashew nuts is that a single view image of a cashew nut cannot encompass the entire view of a cashew nut, resulting in low classification accuracy. We proposed Multi-view CNN to provide a novel framework for classifying three types of cashew nuts. Images of the sample cashew nuts are taken from three distinct angles (top, left, and right) and fed into the proposed modified CNN architecture. For categorization, the modified CNN extracts and combines many elements from these three images and obtains the accuracy of 98.87%.

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