“…In response to these identified gaps, the primary objective of this work is to have picture features extracted and preprocessed from the comprehensive Fruit-360 dataset, utilizing Principal Component Analysis (PCA), color, and texture features. Subsequently, a combination of classical machine learning methods (SVM, KNN, and DT) and the deep learning classification network AlexNet is employed to classify diverse fruit varieties [9,10]. The analysis of classification results aims to identify the most effective ML and DL models for the Fruit-360 dataset, thereby addressing the pressing challenges in fruit recognition and classification.…”