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Journal of Flow Visualization and Image Processing

ISSN for PRINT: 1065-3090

Institutional price:	$586.00
Issues per year:	4

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2008, Volume15

95 pages

DOI: 10.1615/JFlowVisImageProc.v15.i3

Issue price - $175.00

VISION ALGORITHM FOR SHAPE EVALUATION AND CENTROID DETECTION OF MEAT-PATTIES FROM RANDOMLY PLACED AND SEVERELY OVERLAPPED PATTIES FOR AUTOMATED HANDLING FOR SORTING AND PACKAGING

Muhammedali Bharmal
Agilent Technologies (Malaysia)

M. Z. Abdullah
School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering University Sains Malaysia, Malaysia

ABSTRACT

Although the use of a robot vision system in manufacturing sectors is now a commonplace, however, the technology embodied in these devices is poorly matched to industrial needs of food processors. In particular, vision processing used for feedback to automated food handlers should be programmed to detect the position of a single and isolated object as well as overlapping or occluding objects. In this project, started over a year ago, a vision guidance system is being developed to meet this objective. The system integrates the modified version of the Hough transform algorithm as the main recognition engine, to inspect the physical quality of meat-patties and accurately detect the position of each meat-patty from randomly placed, overlapping, and touching meat-patties. The methods and procedures were tested on commercially produced meat-patties.