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Using Support Vector Regression and Hyperspectral Imaging for the Prediction of Oenological Parameters on Different Vintages and Varieties of Wine Grape Berries

Authors :
Rui Silva
Véronique Gomes
Arlete Mendes-Faia
Pedro Melo-Pinto
Source :
Remote Sensing, Vol 10, Iss 2, p 312 (2018)
Publication Year :
2018
Publisher :
MDPI AG, 2018.

Abstract

The performance of a support vector regression (SVR) model with a Gaussian radial basis kernel to predict anthocyanin concentration, pH index and sugar content in whole grape berries, using spectroscopic measurements obtained in reflectance mode, was evaluated. Each sample contained a small number of whole berries and the spectrum of each sample was collected during ripening using hyperspectral imaging in the range of 380–1028 nm. Touriga Franca (TF) variety samples were collected for the 2012–2015 vintages, and Touriga Nacional (TN) and Tinta Barroca (TB) variety samples were collected for the 2013 vintage. These TF vintages were independently used to train, validate and test the SVR methodology; different combinations of TF vintages were used to train and test each model to assess the performance differences under wider and more variable datasets; the varieties that were not employed in the model training and validation (TB and TN) were used to test the generalization ability of the SVR approach. Each case was tested using an external independent set (with data not included in the model training or validation steps). The best R2 results obtained with varieties and vintages not employed in the model’s training step were 0.89, 0.81 and 0.90, with RMSE values of 35.6 mg·L−1, 0.25 and 3.19 °Brix, for anthocyanin concentration, pH index and sugar content, respectively. The present results indicate a good overall performance for all cases, improving the state-of-the-art results for external test sets, and suggesting that a robust model, with a generalization capacity over different varieties and harvest years may be obtainable without further training, which makes this a very competitive approach when compared to the models from other authors, since it makes the problem significantly simpler and more cost-effective.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
20724292
Volume :
10
Issue :
2
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
Remote Sensing
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.383f4c5655b7446ca7a1d910dee2d5b1
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3390/rs10020312