This paper presents a novel multi-task deep learning framework for simultaneous fruit classification and quality assessment using a multi-headed Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). The proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on a curated dataset of four Indian fruits (apple, banana, guava, and orange) with two quality classes (good and bad), achieving 98% accuracy in fruit classification and 99% accuracy in quality detection.
Multi-headed CNN with shared feature extractor, EfficientNetB3 architecture, Grad-CAM for interpretability