Apple color grading based on organization feature parameters

Pattern Recognition Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 15, 2007, Pages 2046-2053

  Xiaobo, Zou ^a   Jiewen, Zhao ^a   Yanxiao, Li ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apple; Genetic algorithm; Image processing; Organization feature parameter; Quality evaluation

Indexed keywords

BACKPROPAGATION; CCD CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

APPLE COLOR GRADING; ORGANIZATION FEATURE PARAMETERS; QUALITY EVALUATION;

COLOR IMAGE PROCESSING;

EID: 34548686321     PISSN: 01678655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2007.06.001     Document Type: Article

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