Local adaptive thresholding of pecan X-ray images: Reverse water flow method

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 961-969

  Mathanker, S K ^a   Weckler, P R ^a   Wang, N ^a   Bowser, T ^a   Maness, N O ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Local adaptive thresholding; Machine vision; Non destructive testing; Pecan; Segmentation evaluation; X ray

Indexed keywords

CELL IMAGES; COMPUTATION TIME; DEFECT CLASSIFICATION; GLOBAL THRESHOLDING; LOCAL ADAPTIVE THRESHOLDING; MACHINE VISION; MACHINE VISION INSPECTION; METALLIC STRUCTURES; MISCLASSIFICATION ERROR; NON DESTRUCTIVE; NON DESTRUCTIVE TESTING; PERPENDICULAR ORIENTATION; SEGMENTATION EVALUATION; SEGMENTATION RESULTS; SEGMENTED IMAGES; THRESHOLD METHODS; UNIMODAL; UNIMODAL IMAGE; WATER FLOWS; X RAY BEAM; X-RAY IMAGE;

COMPUTER VISION; DEFECTS; FLOW OF WATER; FOOD PRODUCTS; GRAPHIC METHODS; HYDRAULICS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; X RAYS;

IMAGE SEGMENTATION;

COMPUTER VISION; ERROR ANALYSIS; HISTOGRAM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING; PIXEL; WATER FLOW; X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY;

CARYA ILLINOINENSIS; CITRUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 77954098220     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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