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Computer Vision Technology for Food Quality Evaluation

The first book in this rapidly expanding area, Computer Vision Technology for Food Quality Evaluation thoroughly discusses the latest advances in image processing and analys… Read more

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The first book in this rapidly expanding area, Computer Vision Technology for Food Quality Evaluation thoroughly discusses the latest advances in image processing and analysis. Computer vision has attracted much research and development attention in recent years and, as a result, significant scientific and technological advances have been made in quality inspection, classification and evaluation of a wide range of food and agricultural products. This unique work provides engineers and technologists working in research, development, and operations in the food industry with critical, comprehensive and readily accessible information on the art and science of computer vision technology. Undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers in universities and research institutions will also find this an essential reference source.

Key features

  • Discusses novel technology for recognizing objects and extracting quantitative information from digital images in order to provide objective, rapid, non-contact and non-destructive quality evaluation
  • International authors with both academic and professional credentials address in detail one aspect of the relevant technology per chapter making this ideal for textbook use
  • Divided into three parts, it begins with an outline of the fundamentals of the technology, followed by full coverage of the application in the most researched areas of meats and other foods, fruits, vegetables and grains

Readership

The engineer and technologist working in research, development and operations in the food industry as well as undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in these areas.

Table of contents

Part I. Fundamentals of Computer Vision Technology

1 Image Acquisition Systems

2 Image Segmentation Techniques

3 Object Measurement Methods

4 Object Classification Methods

Part II. Quality Evaluation of Meat, Poultry and Seafood

5 Quality Evaluation of Meat Cuts

6 Quality Measurement of Cooked Meats

7 Quality Inspection of Poultry Carcasses

8 Quality Evaluation of Seafoods

Part III. Quality Evaluation of Fruit and Vegetables

9 Quality Evaluation of Apples

10 Quality Evaluation of Citrus

11 Quality Evaluation of Strawberry

12 Classification and Quality Evaluation of Table Olives

13 Grading of Potatoes

14 Imaging spectroscopy for determining the optical properties of fruit

Part IV. Quality Evaluation of Grains

15 Wheat Quality Evaluation

16 Quality Evaluation of Rice

17 Quality Evaluation of Corn/Maize

Part V. Quality Evaluation of Other Foods

18 Quality Evaluation of Pizzas

19 Cheese Quality Evaluation

20 Quality Evaluation of Bakery Products

21 Image Analysis of Oriental Noodles

22 Quality Evaluation and Control of Potato Chips
List of Contributors

Product details

About the editor

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Da-Wen Sun

Dr. Da-Wen Sun is internationally recognized for his leadership in food engineering research and education and is a highly respected journal editor. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including election to the Royal Irish Academy in 2010, selection as a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) in 2011, induction as a Fellow of International Academy of Food Science and Technology in 2012, recipient of the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Freezing Research Award in 2013, recipient of the International Association of Engineering and Food (IAEF) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015, and named as a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher in 2015.

Dr. Da-Wen Sun is internationally recognized for his leadership in food engineering research and education and a highly respected journal editor. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including election to the Royal Irish Academy in 2010, selection as a Member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) in 2011, induction as a Fellow of International Academy of Food Science and Technology in 2012, the International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Freezing Research Award in 2013, the International Association of Engineering and Food (IAEF) Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015 and naming as 2015 Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher. His many scholarly works have become standard reference materials for researchers in the areas of computer vision/hyperspectral imaging, computational fluid dynamics modelling, and vacuum cooling. Results of his work have been published in more than 400 peer-reviewed journal papers (Web of Science h-index = 66), among them; thirty papers have been selected by ESI as highly-cited papers, ranking him first in the world in Agricultural Sciences.

Affiliations and expertise
Food Refrigeration and Computerised Food Technology, University College Dublin, National University of Ireland, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland

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