A METHOD OF PREDICTING OIL CONTENT OF OIL PALM FRUIT AND A DEVICE FOR PERFORMING THE SAME

A computer-implemented method of predicting mesocarp oil content of oil palm fruits comprises the steps of providing a digital image (120) of the oil palm fruits; acquiring average pixel value of RGB (130) of the digital image; deriving average hue value (140) of the digital image from the acquired average value of RGB; fitting the derived average value (160) into a first established model to obtain a predicted oil content of the oil palm fruits; or matching the derived average hue value to a database containing a range of preset hue value to obtain the predicted oil content (180); wherein each of the preset value is tagged with respective predetermined oil content.