Real-time defect detection in fruit - Part I: Design concepts and development of prototype hardware

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2299-2308

  Crowe, T G ^a   Delwiche, M J ^a,b  

^a ASAE ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Grading; Image processing; Sorting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030513257     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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