AI-Enhanced Speckle Pattern Imaging for Assessing Milk Authenticity

Valentina Bello, Irene Bassi, Cristina Nuzzi, Simone Pasinetti, Sabina Merlo
Abstract:
Milk is daily consumed worldwide by billions of people and it is also one of the foods most commonly subject to adulteration and counterfeiting. This paper presents a novel low-cost approach to assess milk authenticity by combining speckle pattern imaging and artificial intelligence. From the collected images, 11 statistical parameters were extracted and used to train and test a machine learning model, with the aim of distinguishing whole cow milk and 8 adulterated samples. The performances achieved by the AI-enhanced speckle pattern imaging approach (accuracy of 80%) represent a promising starting point for the development of this label-free, low-cost, easy-to-use technique to support efforts in fighting food fraud.
Download:
IMEKO-TC2-2025-015.pdf
DOI:
10.21014/tc2-2025.015
Event details
IMEKO TC:
TC2
Event name:
IMEKO TC2 PhotoMet 2025
Title:

2025 IMEKO TC2 International Symposium on Modern Photonic Metrology

PhotoMet 2025 - Shaping the Future of Photonic Metrology

Place:
Modena, ITALY
Time:
01 September 2025 - 03 September 2025