Application of color mixing for safety and quality inspection of agricultural products

Fujian Ding; Yud-Ren Chen; Kuanglin Chao

doi:10.1117/12.638037

8 November 2005 Application of color mixing for safety and quality inspection of agricultural products

Fujian Ding, Yud-Ren Chen, Kuanglin Chao

Proceedings Volume 5996, Optical Sensors and Sensing Systems for Natural Resources and Food Safety and Quality; 59960R (2005) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.638037
Event: Optics East 2005, 2005, Boston, MA, United States

Abstract

In this paper, color-mixing applications for food safety and quality was studied, including two-color mixing and three-color mixing. It was shown that the chromaticness of the visual signal resulting from two- or three-color mixing is directly related to the band ratio of light intensity at the two or three selected wavebands. An optical visual device using color mixing to implement the band ratio criterion was presented. Inspection through human vision assisted by an optical device that implements the band ratio criterion would offer flexibility and significant cost savings as compared to inspection with a multispectral machine vision system that implements the same criterion. Example applications of this optical color mixing technique were given for the inspection of chicken carcasses with various diseases and for the detection of chilling injury in cucumbers. Simulation results showed that discrimination by chromaticness that has a direct relation with band ratio can work very well with proper selection of the two or three narrow wavebands. This novel color mixing technique for visual inspection can be implemented on visual devices for a variety of applications, ranging from target detection to food safety inspection.

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Fujian Ding, Yud-Ren Chen, and Kuanglin Chao "Application of color mixing for safety and quality inspection of agricultural products", Proc. SPIE 5996, Optical Sensors and Sensing Systems for Natural Resources and Food Safety and Quality, 59960R (8 November 2005); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.638037

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