Automated strawberry grading system based on image processing

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 71, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Liming, Xu ^a   Yanchao, Zhao ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Grading system; Image processing; K means clustering method; Multi attribute Decision Making Theory; Strawberry; The Dominant Colour method

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED GRADING SYSTEMS; CONVEYER BELTS; GRADING SYSTEM; K-MEANS CLUSTERING METHOD; MACHINE-VISION; MULTI ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING; SCREW-DRIVEN; SHAPE CHARACTERISTICS; SHAPE CLASSIFICATION; SINGLE-CHIP; SIZE DETECTION;

AUTOMATION; BELT CONVEYORS; COLOR; COMPUTER CONTROL SYSTEMS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION THEORY; ERROR DETECTION; GRADING; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; WATER SUPPLY SYSTEMS;

FRUITS;

AUTOMATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DECISION MAKING; DICOTYLEDON; IMAGE PROCESSING;

FRAGARIA X ANANASSA;

EID: 76349119909     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2009.09.013     Document Type: Article

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