Bread and durum wheat classification using wavelet based image fusion

Wheat, which is an essential nutrient, is an important food source for human beings because it is used in flour and feed production. As in many nutrients, wheat plays an important role in macaroni and bread production. The types of wheat used for both foods are different, namely bread and durum wheat. A strong separation of these two wheat types is important for product quality. This article differs from the traditional methods available for the identification of bread and durum wheat species. In this study, ultraviolet (UV) and white light (WL) images of wheat are obtained for both species. Wheat types in these images are classified by various machine learning (ML) methods. Afterwards, these images are fused by wavelet-based image fusion method.The highest accuracy value calculated using only UV and only WL image is 94.8276% and these accuracies are obtained by Support Vector Machine (SVM) and multilayer perceptron (MLP) algorithms, respectively. However, this accuracy value is 98.2759% for the fusion image and both MLP and SVM achieved the same success.Wavelet-based fusion has increased the classification accuracy of all three learning algorithms. It is concluded that the identification ability in the resulting fusion image is higher than the other two raw images. © 2020 Society of Chemical Industry.