An optical automatic measurement method for the moisture content of rough rice using image processing techniques

Computers and Electronics in Agriculture

Volumn 85, Issue , 2012, Pages 134-139

  Shei, Hung Jung ^a   Lin, Chern Sheng ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b FENG CHIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Image processing techniques; Moisture content; Real time measurement; Rough rice

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC MEASUREMENTS; COLOR HISTOGRAM; DRYING BEHAVIOR; DRYING PROCESS; DRYING TIME; DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; EDGE ENHANCEMENTS; HOT AIR TEMPERATURE; IMAGE ACQUISITION SYSTEMS; IMAGE PROCESSING TECHNIQUE; MEASUREMENT METHODS; MULTIPLE THRESHOLD; REAL TIME MEASUREMENTS; ROUGH RICE; SHAPE DETECTION;

COLOR; DRYING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MOISTURE; MOISTURE DETERMINATION;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

AIR TEMPERATURE; COLOR; CORRECTION; HISTOGRAM; HUMIDITY; IMAGE PROCESSING; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOISTURE CONTENT; OPTICAL METHOD; RICE;

EID: 84861024465     PISSN: 01681699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compag.2012.04.012     Document Type: Article

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