Geometric modelling of heterogeneous and complex foods

Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 547-554

  Goñi, Sandro M ^a,b   Purlis, Emmanuel ^a,b  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN Y DESARROLLO EN CRIOTECNOLOGÍA DE ALIMENTOS CIDCA   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE LA PLATA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Food process modelling; Image colour segmentation; Irregular shape

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION DEGREES; COLOUR SEGMENTATION; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DISTANCE CRITERION; FOOD IMAGE; FOOD PROCESS; FOOD QUALITY; GEOMETRIC MODELLING; GEOMETRIC MODELS; IMAGE COLOURS; IN-PROCESS; IRREGULAR SHAPE; LINEAR INTERPOLATION; OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT; SUB-REGIONS;

COLOR;

GEOMETRY;

EID: 73249149070     PISSN: 02608774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfoodeng.2009.11.017     Document Type: Article

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