Author(s)

Ranning Deng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Electronic and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology Liaoning, Anshan, China

Corresponding Author

Ranning Deng

ABSTRACT

Fruit classification and recognition have significant application value in fields such as agricultural sorting and fresh food retail. To address the poor robustness of traditional manual feature extraction methods, this paper designs and implements a fruit image recognition system based on lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The system adopts 20 common types of fruit images from the Fruit-360 dataset. After preprocessing, an improved LeNet-5 model and a simplified AlexNet model are constructed, with a comparative analysis of the performance differences between ReLU and Sigmoid activation functions. Experimental results show that the simplified AlexNet combined with the ReLU activation function achieves the optimal performance, with an average test set accuracy of 96.87%. It also features fast training convergence, making it suitable for real-time recognition requirements in low-computing-power scenarios.

KEYWORDS

Convolutional Neural Network; Fruit Image Recognition; Lightweight Model; Activation Function; Image Classification

CITE THIS PAPER

Ranning Deng, Design and Implementation of a Fruit Image Recognition System Based on CNN. Computing, Performance and Communication Systems (2025) Vol. 9: 73-77. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/cpcs.2025.090110.

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