Color line-scan imaging of cereal grain kernels

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 689-694

  Crowe, T G ^a   Luo, X Y ^a   Jayas, D S ^a   Bulley, N R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Grading; Grain processing; Image processing; Inspection

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING; CROPS; GRADING; INSPECTION; SEED;

CEREAL GRAIN KERNELS; GRAIN PROCESSING; LINE SCAN CAMERA;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

EID: 0031237599     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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