The Halal Qualified Product Searching System Using Image Processing

Abstract

Several food products in markets nowadays have a halal logo used as a sign to guarantee their halal qualification. Unfortunately, some food products with a halal sign are unauthentic and could confuse consumers. Therefore, having a verifying halal certification system (VHCS) is essential. To have the right choice, consumers can review the product’s information online. The VHCS developed allows consumers to search product information by three methods: searching by image processing, searching by barcode scanning, and searching by words. The performance of these searching means has been evaluated in both the searching speed and the searching accuracy. The result of the searching speed through the database with 1,000 records, from the fastest to the slowest paces, is the searching by barcode scanning, searching by words, and searching by image processing, with the average time consumed 3.37, 67, and 3,576 milliseconds, respectively. Furthermore, the accuracy to search information of the searching means within the exact size of the database shows that using image processing gives the highest performance with a 98.5% of accuracy rate, followed by searching by words with a 97.8% of accuracy rate, and lastly, searching by barcode with a 95.3% of accuracy rate.