SQU students create AI-based system to aid food industry

SQU students create AI-based system to aid food industry

Muscat: A group of students from the College of Engineering at Sultan Qaboos University succeeded in making a technical innovation using computer vision, an artificial intelligence technique, and integrating it with robotic systems to automatically identify the quality of dates and introduce artificial intelligence technology into the food industries.

The project aims to increase food quality by using artificial intelligence to automate food inspection and sorting, increase factory production capacity, reduce the time required to inspect and sort dates, and effectively contribute to food security.

Asaad bin Saeed Al Hinai, a member of the student project team, said that the date industry is one of the important industries in the Sultanate of Oman, as it is one of the sources of income and trade. However, date producers face challenges in the sorting process, especially in identifying dates that are spoiled or unsuitable for human consumption. Artificial intelligence technology is important in improving the date sorting process in factories. We carried out a date sorting project using computer vision algorithms and robotics.

Al Hinai added that the system uses artificial intelligence to sort dates automatically. The system automates the process of sorting edible dates from spoiled ones, distinguishes the quality of dates automatically, identifies