A Computer Vision-Based Framework for Multilevel Egg Fertility Classification Using L*a*b* Color Segmentation, Wavelet Texture Features, and Support Vector Machine
Abstract
Egg fertility assessment is essential for improving hatchery efficiency, reducing incubation costs, and minimizing resource waste caused by infertile eggs. This study aims to develop a computer vision-based framework for three-level egg fertility classification, namely Highly Fertile, Fertile, and Infertile. A balanced dataset consisting of 1,500 manually collected candling images (500 images per class) was validated by three poultry experts. The proposed method involves L*a*b* color-space transformation, K-Means clustering for region-of-interest segmentation, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) using the LL sub-band for texture feature extraction, and multiclass Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification. The experimental results show that the proposed model achieves 90.9% training accuracy, with precision, recall, and F1-score of 92.0%, 90.9%, and 90.5%, respectively. For the independent testing dataset, the model achieves 89.7% accuracy and 89.4% F1-score, indicating good generalization capability with only a 1.2% difference between training and testing accuracy. The novelty of this research is the development of a three-level egg fertility classification framework that extends conventional binary fertility detection by integrating L*a*b*-based segmentation, LL-wavelet statistical texture features, and multiclass SVM classification.
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BibTeX
@article{sriyadi2026computer,
title = {{A Computer Vision-Based Framework for Multilevel Egg Fertility Classification Using L*a*b* Color Segmentation, Wavelet Texture Features, and Support Vector Machine}},
author = {Sriyadi and Jufriadif Na'am and Mochamad Wahyudi and Sumanto},
journal = {Journal of Information Systems and Informatics},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.63158/journalisi.v8i5.1882},
url = {https://doi.org/10.63158/journalisi.v8i5.1882},
note = {CC BY},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - A Computer Vision-Based Framework for Multilevel Egg Fertility Classification Using L*a*b* Color Segmentation, Wavelet Texture Features, and Support Vector Machine
AU - Sriyadi
AU - Jufriadif Na'am
AU - Mochamad Wahyudi
AU - Sumanto
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/24
JO - Journal of Information Systems and Informatics
DO - 10.63158/journalisi.v8i5.1882
UR - https://doi.org/10.63158/journalisi.v8i5.1882
AB - Egg fertility assessment is essential for improving hatchery efficiency, reducing incubation costs, and minimizing resource waste caused by infertile eggs. This study aims to develop a computer vision-based framework for three-level egg fertility classification, namely Highly Fertile, Fertile, and Infertile. A balanced dataset consisting of 1,500 manually collected candling images (500 images per class) was validated by three poultry experts. The proposed method involves L*a*b* color-space transformation, K-Means clustering for region-of-interest segmentation, Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) using the LL sub-band for texture feature extraction, and multiclass Support Vector Machine (SVM) classification. The experimental results show that the proposed model achieves 90.9% training accuracy, with precision, recall, and F1-score of 92.0%, 90.9%, and 90.5%, respectively. For the independent testing dataset, the model achieves 89.7% accuracy and 89.4% F1-score, indicating good generalization capability with only a 1.2% difference between training and testing accuracy. The novelty of this research is the development of a three-level egg fertility classification framework that extends conventional binary fertility detection by integrating L*a*b*-based segmentation, LL-wavelet statistical texture features, and multiclass SVM classification.
SN - 2656-5935
SN - 2656-4882
ER -