AI-Based Visual Monitoring for Olive Oil Production

Llucka Organic a premium olive oil producer based in Albania launched the WATCHED_OLIVES initiative to solve a common but critical problem in small-scale olive processing: contamination of grinding machines due to foreign objects mixed with harvested olives. Tey explored the feasibility of applying computer vision to monitor and automatically inspect incoming olive batches at the point of grinding. The technical plan focused on collecting image data and training a vision-based AI model to recognize threats—such as stones or metal pieces—that could damage machines or degrade oil quality. This

Development of a feasibility and business model for deploying an AI-based camera system that monitors raw olive input to prevent damage to grinding machines and preserve oil quality by detecting foreign objects