16.8 Conclusions
The automatic inspection of poultry meat using x-rays is a challenging application for machine vision. The product is highly variable and moving at high speed and the bones are of low contrast. In order to solve this application it was necessary to develop novel software techniques, custom x-ray linear photodiode array sensing technology, closed-loop air conditioning technology and to integrate these components to engineer a system that was robust, safe and easily cleanable. The development of this technology has taken over eight years and work is still ongoing to further refine the system and to integrate camera technology to produce a combined camera and x-ray vision system. Throughout the course of this development it has been necessary for the engineers involved to spend large amounts of time in poultry processing plants both to gather data and to sufficiently understand the application requirements so as to be able to develop practical and robust solutions.
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Graves, M. (2003). X-ray Bone Detection in Further Processed Poultry Production. In: Graves, M., Batchelor, B. (eds) Machine Vision for the Inspection of Natural Products. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-85233-853-9_16
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