Machine vision grading of pistachio nuts using gray-level histogram

Canadian Agricultural Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-66

  Ghazanfari, A ^a   Wulfsohn, D ^b   Irudayaraj, J ^c  

^a SHAHID BAHONAR UNIVERSITY OF KERMAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^c The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Machine vision; Neural networks; Pattern recognition; Pistachio nuts

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GRADING; NEURAL NETWORKS; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

GRAY LEVEL HISTOGRAMS;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS;

EID: 0031654101     PISSN: 0045432X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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