Non-contact sensing of hog weights by machine vision

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 577-582

  Wang, Yongsheng ^a   Yang, Wade ^a   Winter, Phil ^b   Walker, Lloyd T ^a  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hinz Automation Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Coefficient; Correlation; Hog; Image processing; Liveweight; Machine vision; Non intrusive; Pig; Swine

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER VISION; CORRELATION METHODS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS WEIGHING; HOG WEIGHT; MACHINE VISION SYSTEM; NON-CONTACT WEIGHTING;

WEIGHING;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 33747766846     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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