Color grading of beef fat by using computer vision and support vector machine

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-32

  Chen, K ^a   Sun, X ^a   Qin, Ch ^a   Tang, X ^b  

^a NANJING AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

Beef fat; Color grading; Image processing; SVM

Indexed keywords

BEEF FAT; BOUNDARY TRACKING; COLOR GRADING; COLOR SCORES; EFFECTIVE TOOL; MACHINE VISION; MORPHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS; SENSORY EVALUATION; SEQUENCE OF IMAGES; SUBCUTANEOUS FAT; SVM CLASSIFIERS; TEST SETS; THRESHOLDING; TRAINING SETS;

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; COLOR; COMPUTER VISION; IMAGE RETRIEVAL; IMAGING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MORPHOLOGY; MEATS;

SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

ALGORITHM; FAT; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEAT; MORPHOLOGY; SOFTWARE; TRACKING;

EID: 72149100988     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2009.08.006     Document Type: Article

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