Monitoring of dry powder mixing with real-time image processing

Journal of Applied Sciences

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1218-1223

  Bulent Koc A ^a   Silleli, Hasan ^b   Koç, Caner ^b   Ali Dayioglu M ^b  

^a HARRAN UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Image processing; Mixing; Monitoring; Powder

Indexed keywords

BINS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MIXING; MIXTURES; MONITORING; POWDERS;

BINARY POWDER MIXTURES; DEGREE OF MIXING; EQUILIBRIUM STATE; EQUILIBRIUM TIME; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; PIXEL VALUES; REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING;

IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34250787042     PISSN: 18125654     EISSN: 18125662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3923/jas.2007.1218.1223     Document Type: Article

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