Acknowledgments
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Davies, E.R. (1986a,c, 1987c,d,g,k,l, 1988b,c,e,f, 1989 a-d).
Portions of the following papers from Image and Vision Computing as text in Chapter 5, as Tables 5.4, 5.5, 5.6 and as Figs. 3.33, 5.1, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7:
Figures 5, 9; and about 10% of the text in the following paper:
Davies, E.R., Bateman, M., Mason, D.R., Chambers, J. and Ridgway, C. (2003). “Design of efficient line segment detectors for cereal grain inspection.” Pattern Recogn. Lett., 24, nos. 1-3, 421-436.
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Davies, E.R. (1987) “Visual inspection, automatic (robotics)”, in Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Vol. 14, Academic Press, pp. 360-377.
About 4% of the text in the following paper:
Davies, E.R. (2003). “An analysis of the geometric distortions produced by median and related image processing filters.” Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, 126, Academic Press, pp. 93-193.
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Davies, E.R. and Johnstone, A.I.C. (1989)
Greenhill, D. and Davies, E.R. (1994b)
Figures 1-5; and about 44% of the text in the following paper:
Davies, E.R. (1997). Principles and design graphs for obtaining uniform illumination in automated visual inspection. Proc. 6th IEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing and its Applications, Dublin (14-17 July), IEE Conf. Publication no. 443, pp. 161-165.
Table 1; and about 95% of the text in the following paper:
Davies, E.R. (1997). Algorithms for inspection: constraints, tradeoffs and the design process. IEE Digest no. 1997/041, Colloquium on Industrial Inspection, IEE (10 Feb.), pp. 6/1-5.
Figure 1; and about 35% of the text in the following paper:
Davies, E.R., Bateman, M., Chambers, J. and Ridgway, C. (1998). Hybrid non-linear filters for locating speckled contaminants in grain. IEE Digest no. 1998/284, Colloquium on Non-Linear Signal and Image Processing, IEE (22 May), pp. 12/1-5.
Table 1; Figures 4-8; and about 15% of the text in the following paper:
Davies, E.R. (1999). Image distortions produced by mean, median and mode filters. IEE Proc. Vision Image Signal Processing, 146, no. 5, 279-285.
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Davies, E.R. (2000). Obtaining optimum signal from set of directional template masks. Electronics Lett., 36, no. 15, 1271-1272.
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Davies, E.R. (2000). Resolution of problem with use of closing for texture segmentation. Electronics Lett., 36, no. 20, 1694-1696.
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Patel, D., Davies, E.R. and Hannah, I. (1995).
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Davies, E.R. (2000). Image Processing for the Food Industry.
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Davies, E.R. (2000). A generalized model of the geometric distortions produced by rank-order filters. Imaging Science Journal, 48, no. 3, 121-130.
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Charles, D. and Davies, E.R. (2004). Mode filters and their effectiveness for processing colour images. Imaging Science Journal, 52, no. 1, 3-25.
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Davies, E.R. (1998). Rapid location of convex objects in digital images. Proc. EUSIPCO’98, Rhodes, Greece (8-11 Sept.), pp. 589-592.
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Davies, E.R., Mason, D.R., Bateman, M., Chambers, J. and Ridgway, C. (1998). Linear feature detectors and their application to cereal inspection. Proc. EUSIPCO’98, Rhodes, Greece (8-11 Sept.), pp. 2561-2564.
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Davies (2003): Chapter 7 in Cho, H. (ed.) (2003). Opto-Mechatronic Systems Handbook.
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Davies, E.R. (2003). Design of object location algorithms and their use for food and cereals inspection. Chapter 15 in Graves, M. and Batchelor, B.G. (eds.) (2003). Machine Vision Techniques for Inspecting Natural Products, 393-420.
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