From the last several decades demanding of food has been inclined rapidly with the shortage of food caused by a number of factors such as, raising population, climate change, limitation of arable land area and post harvesting waste of cereal or vegetables occurs notably in developing countries due to the improper handling and lack of suitable techniques.
The seed industries across the world which cover a large portion of economical gain, have been highly working on the development of reliable cultivation techniques suitable to the geographical condition of the area, with the objective to provide high quality seeds and crops to overcome the problem of food shorting.
The importance of vegetables is well known in human daily life. vegetable is one of the main food that is produced and adopted worldwide, and the Most important food in many food. and all vegetable comes from seed. However, low germination ability of seed highly affected the vegetable crop production. During storage, a number of Many physiological and biochemical changes which take place during seed deterioration are or have been used to assess seed quality (McDonald 1999). However in the case of prolonged storage, the seed viability decrease with the change in lipid peroxidation (Svetlana Balesevic et al., 2011). Conventional ways to estimate seed aging are time consuming and leads to end use of seeds. Thus, need to develop fast and nondestructive seed sorting system based on the germination ability to improve the cucumber’s productivity and marketability.
In measurement of germination ability, the most popular methods is spectroscopy in non-destructive testing agriculture. In spectroscopy, near-infrared spectrometry is one of spectroscopy in non-destructive testing agriculture. near-infrared spectrometry which measures the reflectance spectra at a wavelength rage from 1000-2500 nm was can measure quantitative analysis from detecting C-H, N-H, O-H or monofunctional, in many area, just like that food science, pharmaceutical science or chemical science have wide application. And SWIR (Short Wave Infrared Reflectance) hyper spectroscopy is state-of-the-art technology in non, a nondestructive and fast hyperspectral imaging technique was used, which can measure a large number of samples at a single time and provide both spectral and spatial information from the scanned sample.
Hyperspectral imaging is a fast emerging technique, nowadays highly in use for quality measurement of agricultural and food products. Hyperspectral short wave infrared (SWIR) is the state-of-the-art technology, fusion between spectrograph and image technique that can analysis the physicochemical characteristic because it can build the physicochemical display using the detail spectral information of sample’s area
In this work we attempt to develop a fast and non-destructive technique for detection of viable and non-viable vegetable seeds by means of image processing using Hyper imaging system. In addition, FT-NIR, using pre-processing methods. and Suggest the best method and pre-processing model.