Recent developments and applications of image features for food quality evaluation and inspection - a review

Trends in Food Science and Technology

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 642-655

  Zheng, Chaoxin ^a   Sun, Da Wen ^a   Zheng, Liyun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEATURE EXTRACTION; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INSPECTION; QUALITY CONTROL;

FOOD QUALITY; IMAGE FEATURES; QUALITY EVALUATION;

FOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 33750631694     PISSN: 09242244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tifs.2006.06.005     Document Type: Review

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