Separation and identification of touching kernels and dockage components in digital images

Canadian Biosystems Engineering / Le Genie des biosystems au Canada

Volumn 48, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, W ^a   Paliwal, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Distance transform; Dockage identification; Linear classifier; Mahalanobis distance; Touching grain kernels; Watershed segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAPH THEORY; IMAGE PROCESSING; WATERSHEDS;

DIGITAL IMAGES; DISTANCE TRANSFORM; LINEAR CLASSIFIER; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCE; TOUCHING GRAIN KERNELS; WATERSHED SEGMENTATION;

GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT);

ALGORITHMS; GRAIN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; WATER SHEDS;

EID: 33846236530     PISSN: 14929058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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