Fruit, vegetable and nut quality evaluation and control using computer vision

Computer Vision Technology in the Food and Beverage Industries

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 379-399

  Blasco, J ^a   Aleixos, N ^b   Cubero, S ^a   Lorente, D ^a  

^a INSTITUTO VALENCIANO DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRARIAS IVIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Automatic inspection; Computer vision; External quality; In line inspection; Internal quality; Machine vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902619046     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857095770.3.379     Document Type: Chapter

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