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Rice quality evaluation August 21, 2008

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Prior to the previous post, I also finished a paper entitled “Automatic milled rice quality evaluation” that’s about to appear in one international conference proceedings.  The idea is to build a low-cost, efficient, and reliable alternative for the milled rice quality evaluation.  As you know, some rice quality standards require the grading factors or defectives in terms weight (grams) , making this problem a very challenging and interesting one!  Read on, some results are discussed in the succeeding paragraphs.

This is the block diagram of the milled rice quality evaluation system, comprised of 6 different stages.

automatic milled rice evaluation framework

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Software caliper for milled rice August 20, 2008

Posted by whaldsz in : projects , 1 comment so far

Few months ago, I completed a utility capable of measuring the percentage by weight of headrice, broken kernels and brewers for .  A screen shot is shown below.

software_caliper

The software is used for determining the grain size of a given milled rice sample.  Additional information about other milled rice grade factors are also provided as follows:

  1. Total number of kernels and weight of the milled rice sample
  2. Number of headrice and weight
  3. Number of broken kernels including its total weight
  4. Brewers

I will provide more information soon.  Keep posted!  And hey… feel free to comment.  Tell me what you think!