Beef identification in industrial slaughterhouses using machine vision techniques

Spanish Journal of Agricultural Research

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 945-957

  Velez, J F ^a   Sanchez, A ^a   Sanchez, J ^b   Esteban, J L ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^b NONE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Animal identification; Automatic digit recognition; Ear tag detection; Image processing; Mathematical morphology; Threshold based segmentation; Traceability

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE;

EID: 84888997245     PISSN: 1695971X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5424/sjar/2013114-3924     Document Type: Article

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