Application of Machine Vision Technology in Beef Marbling Recognition

doi:10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201103003

FOOD SCIENCE ›› 2011, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (3 ): 10-13.doi: 10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201103003

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Application of Machine Vision Technology in Beef Marbling Recognition

WU Hai-juan1，PENG Zeng-qi2，SHEN Ming-xia1,*，LIU Ying-ying1，QIU Jin-hong1，SHI Jie2

1. College of Engineering, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210031, China；2. Key Laboratory of Agricultural and Animal
Products Processing and Quality Control, Ministry of Agriculture, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing 210095, China

Received:2010-04-26 Revised:2011-01-04 Online:2011-02-15 Published:2011-01-13
Contact: SHEN Ming-xia1 E-mail:mingxia@njau.edu.cn

Abstract

Abstract: Marbling level of beef rib-eye region is one of the important indicators in beef classification. A total of 50 rib-eye images were taken by using industrial cameras, then VC++ image processing technology was used to denoise image through smoothing operation; then the rib-eye region was isolated from background with adaptive threshold before the effective rib-eye region was determined by using mathematical and segmentation-based method. Eventually we could identify marbling through mathematical statistics method. Experimental results show that machine vision can effectively identify rib-eye region of the marbling, and its short time-consuming and accurate identification will help determine the exact quality level of beef.

Key words: beef rib-eye, marbling, erosion, dilation, image segmentation, recognition

CLC Number:

TS243.8

WU Hai-juan1，PENG Zeng-qi2，SHEN Ming-xia1,*，LIU Ying-ying1，QIU Jin-hong1，SHI Jie2. Application of Machine Vision Technology in Beef Marbling Recognition[J]. FOOD SCIENCE, 2011, 32(3 ): 10-13 https://doi.org/10.7506/spkx1002-6630-201103003

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