Automated grading and defect detection: A review

Forest Products Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 34-42

  Pham, Duc Truong ^a   Alcock, Robert J ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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