Visual yield estimation of date fruits

Accurate, early estimation of fruit yield is important to help farmers plan and optimize harvesting, storage, and delivery requirements. Visual characteristics of date bunch, such as bunch area, perimeter, compactness, length, width, aspect ratio, number of dates, size of dates, and bunch 3D volume estimation with color and texture features, are important features that can be used to estimate the weight of date bunches and then predict the yield.