> EDIT: Also, automatic vegetable/fruit recognition is actually in production in some supermarkets, for weighing/pricing. (I saw this in France.) I saw this in

> EDIT: Also, automatic vegetable/fruit recognition is actually in production in some supermarkets, for weighing/pricing. (I saw this in France.) I saw this in France. It sucked. I wish I'd documented it better, but as far as I could tell, the algorithm was "display the top five fruit/veg with a similar hue," i.e. you put on a courgette(zuchini) and it offered you--cucumber, lettuce, green pepper, cabbage, grapes. Pinnacle of machine vision algorithms, it ain't.