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Machine vision applies computer vision to industry and manufacturing in order to control or analyze a process or activity. Typical application of machine vision is the inspection of produced goods like electronic devices, automobiles, food and pharmaceuticals. Machine vision systems form their judgement based on specially designed image processing softwares. Therefore, image processing is very crucial for their accuracy. Food industry is among the industries that largely use image processing for inspection of produce. Fruits and vegetables have extremely varying physical appearance. Numerous defect types present for apples as well as high natural variability of their skin color brings apple fruits into the center of our interest. Traditional inspection of apple fruits is performed by ... toggle 10 keywords

machine vision quality inspection apple image processing pattern recognition segmentation feature extraction feature selection classifiers neural networks

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Author
Unay, Devrim
Institution
Universite de Mons
Supervisor
Publication Year
2006
Upload Date
Feb. 16, 2010

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