By combining two mature technologies of imaging and spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging has recently been widely studied and developed, resulting in many successful applications in the food industry for quality and safety evaluation and inspection. These applications include meat quality assessment, automated poultry carcass inspection, quality evaluation of fish, bruise detection of apples, qu...

A novel lateral flow card (TS-Card pork) test was developed for the serological detection of Trichinella infected pigs. Based on extensive studies performed in Romania during 1999-2000 this test proved to be highly specific sensitive, rapid (3-12 minutes) and easy to use (no need for laboratory facilities). It can be used both for the detection of Trichinella infection in carcasses and for epiz...

Coding of pictures for transmission through cables was attempted way back in 1920 (even before the advent of digital computer), but serious attempts for digital image processing commenced in late 60s and early 70s. Importance of computer vision increases due to the fact that vision is one of the most dominant human senses. The use of computer vision for the inspection of fruits and vegetables h...

A materials structural and chemical composition influences its optical scattering properties. In this paper we investigate the use of subsurface laser scattering (SLS) for inferring structural and chemical information of food products. We have constructed a computer vision system based on a supercontinuum laser light source and an AcoustoOptic Tunable Filter (AOTF) to provide a collimated light...

Hyperspectral imaging technologies in the food and agricultural area have been evolving rapidly over the past 15 years owing to tremendous interest from both academic and industrial fields. Line-scan hyperspectral imaging is a major method that has been intensively researched and developed using different physical principles (e.g., reflectance, transmittance, fluorescence, Raman, and spatially ...

Research Triangle Institute (RTI) conducted a multiyear evaluation of the 1996 Pathogen Reduction; Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (PR/HACCP) Systems; Final Rule for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection Service (USDA, FSIS). As part of this evaluation, RTI conducted a study to measure any changes in consumer knowledge, safe food handling practices (i.e., beh...

Coding of pictures for transmission through cables was attempted way back in 1920 (even before the advent of digital computer), but serious attempts for digital image processing commenced in late 60s and early 70s. Importance of computer vision increases due to the fact that vision is one of the most dominant human senses. The use of computer vision for the inspection of fruits and vegetables h...

Quality and safety of foods is one of the world’s top topics. Using high-precision spectral devices is a main technology trends by its high accuracy and nondestructive of food inspection, but the common obstacle is how to extract informative variables from raw data without losing significant information. This article proposes a novel feature selection algorithm named Support Vector Machine-Mult...