Walk-through weighing of pigs using machine vision and an artificial neural network

Biosystems Engineering

Volumn 100, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 117-125

  Wang, Y ^a   Yang, W ^a   Winter, P ^b   Walker, L ^a  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Hinz Automation Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER VISION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; MEDICAL IMAGING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

LIVEWEIGHT APPROXIMATION; STATIONARY IMAGING;

ANIMALS;

ANIMALIA; SUIDAE;

EID: 41749117705     PISSN: 15375110     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystemseng.2007.08.008     Document Type: Article

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