Method for identifying and quantifying characteristics of seeds and other small objects
CA 2459558 A1 · Owner: Kokko, Eric Gerard · Inventors: Kokko, Eric Gerard; Hill, Bernard Dale
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The invention provides a method for identifying or quantifying characteristics of interest of unknown objects, comprising training a single neural network model with training sets of known objects having known values for the characteristics; validating the optimal neural network model; and analyzing unknown objects having unknown values of the characteristics by imaging them to obtain a digital image comprising pixels representing the unknown objects background and any debris; processing the image to identify separate, and , retain pixels representing the unknown objects from pixels and to eliminate background and debris; analyzing the pixels representing each of the unknown objects …
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- Filed September 16, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended September 16, 2022.
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