Color and shrinkage are two main quality attributes of dried banana. In this study, a hot air dryer equipped with a computer vision system -CVS- was employed for online monitoring of quality changes of banana during drying. Banana slices were dried...

BACKGROUND: Pre-treating is a crucial stage of drying process. The best pretreatment for hot air drying of kiwifruit was investigated using a computer vision system (CVS), for online monitoring of drying attributes including drying time, colour...

, and 70 °C. The apple slices dried in a computer vision system (CVS) assisted-hot air dryer both with and without pre-treatment. The quantities of measured color parameters for pre-treated (P.T.) samples were subtracted from the values obtained...

kiwifruit slices were monitored in real time using a computer vision system

(CVS). These values along with calculated energy consumption obtained from preliminary experiments,

were fed into a genetic algorithm (GA) framework to optimize a fuzzy...