On-line nonintrusive measurement of particle size distribution through digital imaging

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 55, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2034-2038

  Carter, Robert M ^b   Yan, Yong ^a,b   Lee, Peter ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Auto thresholding; Digital imaging; Image segmentation; Particle size; Particulate flow; Pneumatic conveying

Indexed keywords

AUTO THRESHOLDING; DIGITAL IMAGING; LASER SHEET GENERATORS; PARTICULATE FLOW; PNEUMATIC CONVEYING;

ALGORITHMS; CCD CAMERAS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 33947316099     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2006.887039     Document Type: Article

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