Applications of computer vision techniques in the agriculture and food industry: a review

Over the last decades, parallel to technological development, there has been a great increase in the use of visual inspection systems. These systems have been widely implemented, particularly in the stage of inspection of product quality, as a means of replacing manual inspection conducted by humans. Much research has been published proposing the use of such tools in the processes of sorting and classification of food products. This paper presents a review of the main publications in the last ten years with respect to new technologies and to the wide application of systems of visual inspection in the sectors of precision farming and in the food industry.