On a grading system for beef marbling

This paper presents an automatic grading system for beef marbling which is composed of discriminant threshold selection method and run length processing. From the experimental results, it has been confirmed that the proposed system enables high quality grading of beef marbling, and robust region segmentation of the actual beef rib-eye image into lean and fat regions. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.