MAF Roda Agrobiotic is a French multinational specialised in calibration, packaging and handling systems for the fresh fruits and vegetables sector. The aim is to help the producers improve their productivity while ensuring that only the highest quality fruits and vegetables are found on grocery store shelves.
The customer develops grading machines to accurately analyze fruit according to quality and color criteria. Each piece of fruit generates 20 color images and 20 near infrared images as it moves and rotates forward under the cameras - covering 100% of its surface. The challenge for the customer was how to use powerful and fast image processing functions.
We helped the customer to use a toolbox of standard software functions (MIL) whose performance had compared favorably to "home-made" proprietary functions. The customer could then benchmark the execution speed of the functions, their ease of use and programming time savings.
The Matrox Imaging Library permited to analyse the spots on the fruits and vegetables efficiently, to analyse their size, their colour but also to identify the presence of stems, cores and to reject the faulty products with black spots for example.
Given the excellent stability of the library, it helps to improve the productivity of programmers.
The customer devotes more time to his specific activity than wasting time on writing and carrying out the maintenance of his own functions. The system user interface leaves scope for adjusting the quality and sorting in real-time parameters and saving them.
