Detection of foreign bodies in food by thermal image processing
This paper deals with the problem of detection of foreign bodies in food. A new method for inspecting food samples is presented, using thermographic images to detect foreign bodies that are not detectable using conventional methods. At first, the basic background of thermography is given. Then, expe...
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Published in | IEEE transactions on industrial electronics (1982) Vol. 51; no. 2; pp. 480 - 490 |
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Main Authors | , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
New York
IEEE
01.04.2004
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) |
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Summary: | This paper deals with the problem of detection of foreign bodies in food. A new method for inspecting food samples is presented, using thermographic images to detect foreign bodies that are not detectable using conventional methods. At first, the basic background of thermography is given. Then, experiments to obtain well-contrasted thermographic images of different food and foreign bodies are discussed. The main part of the present paper introduces specific image processing methods that show a good recognition power of foreign bodies within food. Results achieved with a small set of test images are presented. The results are promising and the methods work even on some poorly contrasted images. To compare the different image processing and recognition methods, a quality index is defined. On the test images the success of the presented methods is shown and the difference in recognition results can be measured using the introduced quality index. |
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ISSN: | 0278-0046 1557-9948 |
DOI: | 10.1109/TIE.2004.825286 |