Artificial vision and embedded systems as alternative tools for evaluating beef meat freshness

Beef meat is a high nutritious product as it is filled with proteins, vitamins, and many other nutrients that have many beneficial health effects. Global demand of meat are still increasing. Thus ensuring high quality and maintaining the freshness of meat has become a main concern of manufacturers, distributors and sellers in order to avoid economic loss. Imaging methods such as artificial vision have been recently utilized to visually assess beef meat based on color, shape, size, surface texture features. This paper reports a synthesis of our recent researches about beef meat freshness based on color and texture features using the artificial vison technique.