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29 December 2000 Hyperspectral imaging for detection of scab in wheat
Stephen R. Delwiche; Moon S. Kim
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Proceedings Volume 4203, Biological Quality and Precision Agriculture II; (2000) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.411752
Event: Environmental and Industrial Sensing, 2000, Boston, MA, United States
Abstract
Scab (Fusarium head blight) is a disease that causes wheat kernels to be shriveled, underweight, and difficult to mill. Scab is also a health concern because of the possible concomitant production of the mycotoxin deoxynivalenol. Current official inspection procedures entail manual human inspection. A study was undertaken to explore the possibility of detecting scab-damaged wheat kernels by machine vision. A custom-made hyperspectral imaging system, possessing a wavelength range of 425 to 860 nm with neighboring bands 3.7 nm apart, a spatial resolution of 0.022 mm2/pixel, and 16-bit per pixel dynamic range, gathered images of non-touching kernels from three wheat varieties. Each variety was represented by 32 normal and 32 scab-damaged kernels. From a search of wavelengths that could be used to separate the two classes (normal vs. scab), a linear discriminant function was constructed from the best R((lambda) 1)/R((lambda) 2), based on the assumption of a multivariate normal distribution for each class and the pooling of the covariance error that averaged between 2 and 17%, dependent on wheat variety. With expansion to the testing of more varieties, a two-to-four wavelength machine vision system appears to be a feasible alternative to manual inspection.
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Stephen R. Delwiche and Moon S. Kim "Hyperspectral imaging for detection of scab in wheat", Proc. SPIE 4203, Biological Quality and Precision Agriculture II, (29 December 2000); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.411752
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