Objective Quality Assessment of Apples Using Machine Vision, NIR Spectrophotometer, and Electronic Nose

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1351-1358

  Xiaobo, Z ^a   Jiewen, Z ^a   Yanxiao, L ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Apple; Electronic nose; Machine vision; NIR spectrophotometer; Quality evaluation

Indexed keywords

APPLE; ELECTRONIC NOSE; MACHINE VISION; NIR SPECTROPHOTOMETER; QUALITY EVALUATION;

ARTIFICIAL ORGANS; COMPUTER VISION; DECISION TREES; FRUITS; INFRARED DEVICES; LINEAR REGRESSION; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; NEURAL NETWORKS; NICKEL OXIDE; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; SENSORS; SENSORY AIDS; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUGAR (SUCROSE);

QUALITY CONTROL;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; ASSESSMENT METHOD; DECIDUOUS TREE; FRUIT; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; QUALITY CONTROL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUGAR; WAVELENGTH;

MALUS X DOMESTICA;

EID: 77956459255     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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