Federated Learning for Grading Oil Palm Fruit Ripeness in the Oil Palm Industry

The prevailing method for grading oil palm fruit bunches in mills relies on human graders conducting visual inspections, resulting in frequent errors and inconsistent assessments. This is a significant open problem when developing a detector for oil palm fruit ripeness and oil content, which are rel...

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Main Authors: Patchanee Laddawong, Yutthapong Pianroj, Piyanart Chotikawanid, Teerasak Punvichai, Saysunee Jumrat, Atitaya Kham-Ouam, Jirapond Muangprathub
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Published: Wiley 2025-01-01
Series:Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/acis/9241523
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author Patchanee Laddawong
Yutthapong Pianroj
Piyanart Chotikawanid
Teerasak Punvichai
Saysunee Jumrat
Atitaya Kham-Ouam
Jirapond Muangprathub
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Yutthapong Pianroj
Piyanart Chotikawanid
Teerasak Punvichai
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description The prevailing method for grading oil palm fruit bunches in mills relies on human graders conducting visual inspections, resulting in frequent errors and inconsistent assessments. This is a significant open problem when developing a detector for oil palm fruit ripeness and oil content, which are related factors. Current trends focus on computer vision techniques based on image processing and machine learning to improve grading of oil palm fruit bunches at an individual factory, resulting in limited diversity of the data used for evaluation. Collecting data from all factories offers informational advantages but raises privacy concerns. Addressing these challenges, this study proposes federated learning (FL) to develop local and global prediction models for grading oil palm fruit ripeness while preserving data privacy. FL facilitates collaborative model training across factories, mitigating privacy risks and enhancing model development efficiency. The proposed model uses the color of palm husks to determine the ripeness stage, which is used as a factor in predicting the yield of oil from the crop. A predictive model was created using FL principles with a training dataset of 5209 images, which was divided into two subsets: single-palm (2571 images) and multipalm (2638 images). The classification accuracy of a global model was 90.0%, while the local models were expanded to include private data for each of 4 testing clients. The predictive global and local models from FL were used to implement the system in a web application form and to validate its performance in calling the oil palm ripeness stage.
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spelling doaj-art-399d3c95eab24f53a932205a539c490a2025-08-20T02:35:22ZengWileyApplied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing1687-97322025-01-01202510.1155/acis/9241523Federated Learning for Grading Oil Palm Fruit Ripeness in the Oil Palm IndustryPatchanee Laddawong0Yutthapong Pianroj1Piyanart Chotikawanid2Teerasak Punvichai3Saysunee Jumrat4Atitaya Kham-Ouam5Jirapond Muangprathub6College of Digital ScienceFaculty of Science and Industrial TechnologyFaculty of Science and Industrial TechnologyIntegrated High-Value Oleochemical Research CenterFaculty of Science and Industrial TechnologyCollege of Digital ScienceFaculty of Science and Industrial TechnologyThe prevailing method for grading oil palm fruit bunches in mills relies on human graders conducting visual inspections, resulting in frequent errors and inconsistent assessments. This is a significant open problem when developing a detector for oil palm fruit ripeness and oil content, which are related factors. Current trends focus on computer vision techniques based on image processing and machine learning to improve grading of oil palm fruit bunches at an individual factory, resulting in limited diversity of the data used for evaluation. Collecting data from all factories offers informational advantages but raises privacy concerns. Addressing these challenges, this study proposes federated learning (FL) to develop local and global prediction models for grading oil palm fruit ripeness while preserving data privacy. FL facilitates collaborative model training across factories, mitigating privacy risks and enhancing model development efficiency. The proposed model uses the color of palm husks to determine the ripeness stage, which is used as a factor in predicting the yield of oil from the crop. A predictive model was created using FL principles with a training dataset of 5209 images, which was divided into two subsets: single-palm (2571 images) and multipalm (2638 images). The classification accuracy of a global model was 90.0%, while the local models were expanded to include private data for each of 4 testing clients. The predictive global and local models from FL were used to implement the system in a web application form and to validate its performance in calling the oil palm ripeness stage.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/acis/9241523
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