“…We are seeing substantial improvement in the efficiency of CV techniques (He et al, 2016;Howard et al, 2017;Zhang et al, 2018) and, at least for now, computational resources continue to become more affordable (Mack, 2011). As a result, CV is becoming available to whole industries, not just areas of highest commercial value; for example, ML has been used with increasing regularity for tasks specific to cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.), such as the exploration and optimisation of aroma profiles (Fuentes et al, 2019), monitoring of cocoa bean fermentation (Parra et al, 2018;Oliveira et al, 2021), and bean quality classification (Mite-Baidal et al, 2019). While large research and development budgets for areas such as wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) production have allowed for the use of unpiloted aerial vehicle photography to identify disease outbreaks (Su et al, 2018;Chiu et al, 2020) and the use of multispectral satellite photography to monitor outbreaks of yellow rust (Puccinia striiformis) from space (Nagarajan et al, 1984), the application of ML to sectors with fewer financial resources has had to take a different form.…”