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Evaluation Technologies for Food Quality summarizes food quality evaluation technologies, which include sensory evaluation techniques and chemical and physical analysis. In particular, the book introduces many novel micro and nano…

This volume, which includes both Chinese and leading Western researchers, will be of interest to all those studying reading and visual symbol processing. For cognitive psychologists and cognitive scientists as…

Explores the latest developments in computer vision methods applicable to various problems in multimedia computing. It presents discussions on new ideas, as well as problems in computer vision and multimedia…