Poultry processing worldwide: automated system for on-line poultry carcase inspection

摘要

An automated on-line poultry inspection system is needed for slaughter plants to meet the on-line, bird-by-bird inspection required by the federal government at ever-increasing poultry processing line speed. It would increase the slaughter plant productivity and improve the federal poultry inspection programme. The Instrumentation and Sensing Laboratory (ISL) has been applying visibleear infra-red (Vis/NIR) spectrophotometry and multi-spectral imaging techniques to develop an accurate, reliable and low cost machine vision system for inspecting poultry carcases on-line at slaughter plants.