CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A MACHINE FOR PREPARING AND DISPENSING HOT BEVERAGES BY CONTROLLED INFUSION OF A PRECURSOR SUBSTANCE IN GRANULAR OR POWDER FORM, BASED ON THE RECOGNITION AND CLASSIFICATION OF A DOSE UNIT INSERTED IN THE MACHINE

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Provided are a control system and a control method for a machine for preparing and dispensing hot beverages by controlled infusion of a precursor substance in granular or powder form arranged in a dose unit, which has an automatic image recognition and processing unit, of a machine-learning type, adapted to classify the dose unit received by the machine into one of a plurality of predetermined classes of dose units on the basis of a set of training images of dose units taken in a learning step. The set of training images includes at least a plurality of primary images of dose units including predetermined graphic recognition markings on a reference surface of the dose unit, indicative of corresponding classes of dose units, and a plurality of synthetic images obtained by alteration of the plurality of primary images.