Computer vision for automatic sorting in the food industry

Computer Vision Technology in the Food and Beverage Industries

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 150-180

  Davies, E Roy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Computer vision; Food sorting; Image processing; Object location; Pattern recognition

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902646867     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1533/9780857095770.2.150     Document Type: Chapter

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