A trainable grading system for tobacco leaves

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 231-244

  Zhang, J ^a   Sokhansanj, S ^a   Wu, S ^b   Fang, R ^b   Yang, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b JIANGSU UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Grading; Image processing; Machine vision; Quality inspection; Tobacco leave

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED ANALYSIS; COMPUTER VISION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; EXPERT SYSTEMS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRADING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL;

TOBACCO LEAVES; TRAINABLE GRADING SYSTEM;

TOBACCO;

EID: 0031074324     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0168-1699(96)00040-3     Document Type: Article

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