Texture appearance characterization of pre-sliced pork ham images using fractal metrics: Fourier analysis dimension and lacunarity

Food Research International

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 353-362

  Valous, Nektarios A ^a   Mendoza, Fernando ^a   Sun, Da Wen ^a   Allen, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ASHTOWN FOOD RESEARCH CENTRE   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Fourier analysis fractal dimension; Gliding box lacunarity; Pork ham slice; Surface characterization; Texture appearance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER VISION; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MEATS; MILITARY PHOTOGRAPHY; PARTIAL DISCHARGES; POWER SPECTRUM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEXTURES;

DESCRIPTORS; DISCRIMINATING POWER; EXPONENTIAL DECAY FUNCTIONS; FRACTAL METRICS; FRACTAL PARAMETERS; GLIDING BOX LACUNARITY; IMAGE TEXTURES; IRELAND; PORK HAM SLICE; PREMIUM QUALITIES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL STRUCTURES; SURFACE CHARACTERIZATION; VISUAL TEXTURES;

FRACTAL DIMENSION;

EID: 61349156047     PISSN: 09639969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodres.2008.12.012     Document Type: Article

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