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Machine Vision Checks Chicken and Confirms Cookies

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Machine vision is finding applications in food processing, from inspecting processed chicken to helping give mass-produced cookies the slightly imperfect look of the ones Grandma used to make.

Hank Hogan, Contributing Editor

John Stewart would like to make your next meal of chicken strips or nuggets cheaper and healthier. Stewart, a research engineer at Georgia Tech Research Institute in Atlanta, is working on a machine vision system that he hopes will be used to spot foreign objects in finished poultry and other food products on the processing line. In the manufacture of processed chicken, the meat is diced into the appropriate size and moved along a conveyor belt to the tune of 6000 pounds an hour. Foreign objects, which can include plastic from the processing machinery, usually are caught during...Read full article

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    Published: October 2005
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