Features extraction for eggplant fruit grading system using machine vision

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 675-684

  Chong, Vui Kiong ^a   Kondo, Naoshi ^b   Ninomiya, Kazunori ^c   Nishi, Takao ^d   Monta, Mitsuji ^a   Namba, Kazuhiko ^a   Zhang, Qin ^e  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SI Seiko Co Ltd   (Japan)

^d D Add Ninth Co Ltd   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Grading; Image processing; Image segmentation; Machine vision

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; CAMERAS; CHARGE COUPLED DEVICES; COMPUTER VISION; CROPS; DIGITAL IMAGE STORAGE; FEATURE EXTRACTION; FRUIT JUICES; FRUITS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; IMAGING SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; PLANNING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSORS;

AGRICULTURAL CROPS; CLASSIFICATION; COLOR HOMOGENEITIES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; FEATURES EXTRACTIONS; FRUIT GRADING; MACHINE VISION; PERFORMANCE RESULTS; SENSING DEVICES;

GRADING;

SOLANUM MELONGENA;

EID: 58049220023     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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