Computational intelligence for automated keg identification and deformation detection

Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Image and Signal Processing, CIISP 2007

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 77-82

  Campbell, Duncan ^a   Keir, Andrew ^a   Lees, Michael ^b  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b Fosters ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Keg deformation detection; Keg tracking; Neural networks; OCR

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COST EFFECTIVENESS; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CONCURRENT ASSESSMENT; KEG DEFORMATION DETECTION; KEG TRACKING; NUMBER RECOGNITION SYSTEM;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 34548790843     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CIISP.2007.369297     Document Type: Conference Paper

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