Non-destructive Prediction of Apple Firmness by Acoustic-Vibrational Signal Ridge Regression Analysis
摘要
Firmness can be used as one of the important indexes to indicate the quality of apples, usually predicted non-destructively by acoustic-vibrational signal detection, for the high correlation between acoustic-vibrational signal features and firmness. In this paper, acoustic-vibrational signal features with high temporal correlation are selected as the independent variable of the model. The acoustic-vibrational signal and quality of apples were measured, and then 32 time-dependent signal features were selected by MATLAB analysis data, and the firmness of the apple was predicted by a ridge regression model. Using this method, the accuracy of the training set and verification set is 84.7 and 82.4%, respectively. The actual change in apples is consistent with the prediction trend. Because of its more characteristics and more accurate model, this method has better fault tolerance for data, reduces the environmental requirements for acoustic-vibrational signal detection, and paves the way for the firmness prediction of other apple varieties.