Question: Can 3D synthetic data offer anything useful to the potato growing industry?
Answer: Yes, a single camera attached to a portable hardware box can make accurate counts and weights by grade, and identify spud health for each potato loaded into a processor’s cellar.
Potato suppliers manage fulfillment contracts for the potato industry, connecting growers with sellers across the country. As potatoes are stored in climate controlled cellars every year, there is a real need to know what inventory can be sold.
By clipping a camera to the loading mechanism at each cellar, The Main Branch can accurately leverage our custom potato AI model to accurately identify weights, counts, and grades of spuds and display results in a user-friendly web interface. Knowing what’s in the cellar enables efficient order placement and fulfillment, increasing satisfaction of purchasers, profit for growers, and yield for processors.