Recent methods and techniques of external grading systems for agricultural crops quality inspection - Review

International Journal of Food Engineering

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Alfatni, Meftah Salem ^a   Shariff, Abdul Rashid Mohamed ^a   Abdullah, Mohd Zaid ^b   Ben Saeed, Osama Mohamed ^a   Ceesay, Omar M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF PHYSICS   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

agricultural crop; external grading system; image processing; quality inspection

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL CROPS; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CLASSIFICATION MECHANISM; EXTERNAL GRADING SYSTEM; GRADING SYSTEM; HIGH-QUALITY PRODUCTS; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; NON DESTRUCTIVE; QUALITY INSPECTION; QUALITY VERIFICATION; TECHNICAL ENGINEERING;

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; CROPS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INSPECTION;

GRADING;

EID: 79958117238     PISSN: 15563758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1556-3758.1932     Document Type: Review

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