Imaging and pattern recognition methods for feather sex separation of broiler chicks

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 461-467

  Tao, Y ^a,b   Walker, J ^a  

^a ASAE ^*  (United States)

^b 3202 Bell Engineering Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Broiler; Chick gender; Machine vision; Optics; Pattern recognition; Segregation; Spectral imaging

Indexed keywords

BLOB ANALYSIS; BROILER CHICKS; CHICK GENDER; FEATHER SEX SEPARATION; SPECTRAL IMAGING;

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER VISION; CURVE FITTING; IMAGE PROCESSING; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; OPTICS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0034163587     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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