Image-processing algorithms for tomato classification

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 851-858

  Laykin, Shachar ^a   Alchanatis, Victor ^b   Fallik, Elazar ^b   Edan, Yael ^a  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Classification; Image processing; Machine vision; Tomatoes

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; COLOR; FRUITS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

TOMATO CLASSIFICATION;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS;

LYCOPERSICON ESCULENTUM;

EID: 0346034797     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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