Automatic unhulled rice grain crack detection by X-ray imaging

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Pothula, Anand Kumar and Bal, Satish. 2007. "Automatic unhulled rice grain crack detection by X-ray imaging." Transactions of the ASABE. 50 (5), pp. 1907-1911.
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Automatic unhulled rice grain crack detection by X-ray imaging

ERA Journal ID3442
Article CategoryArticle
AuthorsPothula, Anand Kumar (Author) and Bal, Satish (Author)
Journal TitleTransactions of the ASABE
Journal Citation50 (5), pp. 1907-1911
Number of Pages5
Year2007
Place of PublicationUnited States
ISSN2151-0032
2151-0040
Abstract

Crack detection of incoming paddy (unhulled rice grain) is an important step in the rice milling industry, as paddy grains with cracks severely affect the milling yield. The present method of crack detection by manually dehusking and examining kernels under light is laborious, time consuming, and highly subjective. The potential of x-ray imaging for paddy grain crack detection was investigated. Algorithms were developed for automatic detection of paddy cracks from the x-ray image. Hough transform was used to determine the cracks in the final segmented image. A graphical user interface (GUI) was developed for displaying the number of cracks in the given x-ray image.

Keywordscracks, detection, paddy, segmentation, x‐ray.
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020409901. Agricultural engineering
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Byline AffiliationsIndian Institute of Technology, India
Institution of OriginUniversity of Southern Queensland
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