Spherical transform of fruit images for on-line defect extraction of mass objects

Optical Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 344-350

  Tao, Yang ^a  

^a AGRI TECH Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Camera; Defects; Gradience; Imaging; Lighting; Sorting; Transforms; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001416083     PISSN: 00913286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/1.600902     Document Type: Article

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