Quality and Safety Inspection of Food and Agricultural Products by LabVIEW IMAQ Vision

Abstract

LabVIEW IMAQ Vision is potentially useful for inspecting food and agricultural products since it combines the merits of both LabVIEW and IMAQ Vision, which have graphical programming environment and rich image processing functions. This paper provides profound introduction to LabVIEW IMAQ Vision: the principal components of LabVIEW IMAQ Vision, calibration, and image processing and analysis using VIs functions are described. In addition, recent advances in the application of LabVIEW IMAQ Vision to food and agricultural products inspection are reviewed, such as defects detection, shape classification, fruit grading and quality evaluation, etc. Finally, current limitations and likely future development trends are discussed. And the results of discussion showed that the utilization of IMAQ Vision module is restricted by the hardware environment, and mixed programming with LabVIEW and MATLAB is the development trend of LabVIEW IMAQ Vision.

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