A novel approach for quality control system using sensor fusion of infrared and visual image processing for laser sealing of food containers

Measurement Science and Technology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1995-2000

  Al Habaibeh, Amin ^a   Shi, F ^b   Brown, N ^b   Kerr, D ^b   Jackson, M ^b   Parkin, R M ^c  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Iensys Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Condition monitoring; Image processing; Infrared; Laser sealing; Quality control

Indexed keywords

IMAGE PROCESSING; LASER BEAMS; MECHATRONICS; MONITORING; QUALITY CONTROL;

FOOD CONTAINERS; INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY; LASER SEALING PROCESS;

SENSOR DATA FUSION;

MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 5644292089     PISSN: 09570233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0957-0233/15/10/008     Document Type: Article

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