On a grading system for beef marbling

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1037-1050

  Yoshikawa, Fumito ^a   Toraichi, Kazuo ^a   Wada, Koichi ^a   Ostu, Nobuyuki ^b   Nakai, Hisroyasu ^c   Mitsumoto, Mitsuru ^d   Katagishi, Kazuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b ELECTROTECHNICAL LABORATORY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH CENTER FOR TOHOKU REGION   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

AUTOMATIC GRADING SYSTEMS; BEEF MARBLING;

OBJECT RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034316727     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8655(00)00058-1     Document Type: Article

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