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Wheat product quality is closely related to wheat seed purity. Purity is an important factor that has a considerable impact on wheat product prices in grain storage silos. The aim of this paper was to introduce a machine vision based approach as a primarily step for fabricating an automatic wheat purity determination and grading device. Experimental data consists of 52 color, morphology, and texture characteristic parameters, extracted from images of samples, including four local wheat grades and eight common weed seeds growing in wheat fields of Iran, were used to build the classification models. A new algorithm that combines Imperialist Competitive Algorithm (ICA) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) has been used for two purposes: to find the best characteristic parameters set and to create robust classification models. Based upon the results obtained from this study, the total classification rate of ICA-ANN approach for wheat grains vs. non-wheat seeds, wheat grain classes, and non-wheat seed classes was 96.25%, 87.50%, and 77.22%, respectively. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

• Classification of roughness to unmeasured surfaces is firstly proposed. • No need to artificially design any indicators. • The method used in this article is robust to the light source environment. • This method is combined with machine vision system. At present, machine vision roughness detection mostly needs to design roughness related indexes based on images, and the index design has human intervention and is heavily dependent on the light source environment. To solve this problem, the paper classifies the surface roughness based on the deep convolutional neural network method, which can realize the roughness detection without index design. The most important thing is that the detection method has good light source robustness under different light source environments. The study adopts an end-to-end image analysis method, by means of image enhancement pre-processing of a small number of source images, after multi-layer convolution and pooling operations, as well as comprehensive processing of fully connected and classification layers, the convolutional kernel can automatically extract the features of the image, and finally the surface roughness obtained by vertical disc cutter milling can be classified and predicted. In addition, based on the experimental light source environment with two different luminance of night and day, by comparing with the technically mature ResNet50 and DenseNet121 convolutional neural network models, the deep convolutional neural network Xception model not only has high roughness classification accuracy, but also has more light source environment robustness. This method makes the online measurement of visual roughness possible. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]