Image Processing with Ardunio

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Hello, my name is Patrick. I am a student.
I'm working on a science project that I want to build a stick of fruit maturity detection using image processing combined with arduino. I found some obstacles:

  1. How to program image processing to determine fruit maturity?
  2. Based on the literature, MATLAB and OpenCV can be used to program image processing. I prefer MATLAB. Can you teach me how to program image processing using MATLAB?
  3. If I already programmed the image processing with MATLAB, then how to connect the MATLAB with Arduino?
  4. Can this stick work automatically when it detects fruit maturity? I mean, when the webcam captures the image of the object, the image is directly processed with image processing that has been integrated with the arduino without connecting to the computer. So the results immediately appear on the LCD.
  5. Which webcam type is suitable for image processing?

Can you help me answer this problem?
I would be very grateful if you would help me

Regards

Patrick

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Depending on what else you want to do with this device, the Arduino is a poor choice. You may use an Arduino in the final product but it won't be doing any of the image processing.

I would start with a Rasberry Pi or BeagleBone.

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Please remove your email address from the email; unless you want to receive lots of spam.

Further the intention of a forum is to share ideas and knowledge and other people can learn from that as well. So if someone wants to help you, it should (and will) be here and not via email.

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Can you make a drawing how you visualise your system? I guess you will have a camera; to what is it connected? You visualise an Arduino in your setup; what will be it's function? Just passing data through?

As you might have figured out, most Arduinos are totally unsuitable for image processing and the others will probably also not do the trick. I would consider a Raspberry Pi for image processing if you want to do it in an embedded environment.

Questions about image processing using XXX probably fit better in an forum for product XXX (e.g. a matlab forum if you want to do image processing in matlab).

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Not sure what the best way is to detect the maturity of fruit, but I know one of the main attractions to animals (and people) of mature fruits is its smell.