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High-tech Sorter 'Sees' Seed Differences

New technologies have been developed for automated separation of seeds that are discolored, blemished, infected by fungi, or from different species. This technology uses a newly developed "smart" camera developed in the USDA's Engineering & Wind Erosion Research Unit (EWERU) lab that enables high speed image capture and digital processing of images from each individual seed as they drop off the end of a chute. All of the red, green, and blue pixels of the color images are used by the new...
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