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Hamdi Altaheri^1,2, Mansour Alsulaiman^1,2, Ghulam Muhammad^1,2

¹Department of Computer Engineering, College of Computer and Information Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh 11543, Saudi Arabia.

|November 1, 2019

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A new dataset of date fruits aids automated harvesting and yield estimation. This resource supports research in date palm agriculture, offering solutions for manual inefficiencies.

Keywords:

Date fruits Fruits classification Machine vision Robotic harvesting Visual dataset Visual yield estimation

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Area of Science:

Agricultural Science
Computer Vision
Robotics

Background:

Date palm is a globally significant fruit crop.
Manual methods for date fruit inspection, harvesting, grading, and classification are inefficient and costly.
Limited public datasets hinder research in automated date fruit harvesting.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a comprehensive dataset for date fruits.
To facilitate research in automated date palm agricultural applications.
To support tasks like automated harvesting, yield estimation, and classification.

Main Methods:

Collected images of date fruit bunches across various varieties and maturity stages.
Included variations like multi-scale images, diverse illumination, and bagging states.
Annotated date bunches, measured bunch weights, and captured 360° videos.

Main Results:

A rich dataset enabling diverse research applications.
Dataset addresses variations crucial for real-world agricultural scenarios.
Facilitates development of automated systems for date palm agriculture.

Conclusions:

The dataset advances research in automated date palm applications.
Enables progress in robotic harvesting, fruit detection, and yield estimation.
Publicly available dataset supports the research community in improving date palm agriculture.